title: Finetuning behaviour management in young children.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Concerns about their children's development and behaviour are among the most common reasons parents bring children to doctors. These concerns often arise from normal developmental variation in children rather than serious pathology. Reviewing behaviour management strategies with parents and providing support goes a long way to resolving many of these problems.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this article is to provide general practitioners with a template for behaviour management work with parents of young children.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We review the importance of routine, positive attention, praise, reward, selective ignoring, and use of consequences in behaviour management.
authors.forename: Rick
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jarman
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D016487:Parenting