At our leaders training on Friday night we highlighted our top twelve tips for behaviour management:
- Pray
- Focus on the issue at hand
- Be pro-active
- Be aware of flash-points in your programme
- Give progressive warnings and consequences
- Use Time Out
- Remove children/young people from the group when disciplining
- Listen
- Ask the child or young person what they think should happen
- Don’t discipline out of anger
- See them through God’s eyes
- Don’t be proud
All of this is underpinned by being positive – positive praise and a positive outlook.
What other tips would you add?
I had some issues with discipline early last year. I also found that giving those kids who are constant disruptions some sort of responsibility seems to make them a bit more tame. I suppose it’s because it gives them ownership over the event.
[...] my feed reader recently about behaviour and discipline in youth groups. Firstly Chris Kidd gave his top 12 tips for behaviour management which was then picked up by Ben over at DOPCANDY. So I thought I’d share the strategy that we [...]
[...] my feed reader recently about behaviour and discipline in youth groups. Firstly Chris Kidd gave his top 12 tips for behaviour management which was then picked up by Ben over at DOPCANDY. So I thought I’d share the strategy that we [...]