Parenting Pointers: Behavioral Warning Signs

Could your child's bad behavior be a sign of a behavioral disorder? Imagine this: You tell your child to clean her room. Half an hour later, not only has she not cleaned her room, but she's hit her brother while fighting over the iPad. Is her disobedience willful, or a sign of a brain imbalance causing a processing issue? According to the education advocates at Brain Balance Achievement Centers —a holistic, drug-free approach to addressing behavioral, social, or learning difficulties—there are five signs that your child's misbehavior could be something more.

**BRAIN BALANCE'S 5 BEHAVIORAL WARNING SIGNS***  
1. DEFIANCE
If your child often doesn't listen to your explicit instructions or refuses to obey other authority figures, it might point to common disruptive behavior disorders like ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and Conduct Disorder.
 
2. INATTENTION
If your child continually struggles to concentrate or moves from one task to the other without completing any, this might be a sign of ADHD.
 
3. PHYSICAL AGGRESSION
All children throw occasional tantrums. But if your child is overly aggressive—throwing excessive tantrums or initiating negative interactions with other children—she might have CD.
 
4. BLAMING OTHERS
It's normal for children to want to avoid getting in trouble. What you should look out for is a tendency to shirk responsibility or refuse to own up to their mistakes. 
 
5. ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Severe antisocial behavior (violation of social rules and disregard for the feelings of others) can often lead to a diagnosis of CD or ODD. 
 
Learn more about each of these signs at: https://www.brainbalancecenters.com/blog/2017/07/5-common-behavioral-issues-kids/
 
Parents with whom these signs resonate can take this simple online assessment: https://www.brainbalancecenters.com/our-program/childs-personalized-plan/online-assessment. 
 
After years of helping children with behavioral and social challenges, the experts at Brain Balance have developed a cutting-edge (and drug-free) program combining sensory motor stimulation, academic stimulation, and nutrition to correct brain imbalance and improve achievement.