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How to meet your child's difficult behavior with compassion

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Yvonne Newbold |

TEDxNHS

• August 2022

Yvonne Newbold's son, Toby, is one of the millions of young people living with a disability. Parenting Toby has offered her some lessons on how to help children move from anxiety-led behavior towards happier times. Drawing on her personal experience, she outlines some of the most effective and actionable of these strategies -- starting with a dash of curiosity, kindness and creative thinking.

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Yvonne Newbold's son, Toby, is one of the millions of young people living with a disability. Parenting Toby has offered her some lessons on how to help children move from anxiety-led behavior towards happier times. Drawing on her personal experience, she outlines some of the most effective and actionable of these strategies -- starting with a dash of curiosity, kindness and creative thinking.

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About the speaker

Learning disability champion

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Yvonne Newbold helps parents and professionals develop the knowledge, skills, strategies and confidence to reduce anxiety-led difficult and dangerous behavior in children with a disability or an additional need.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxNHS, an independent event. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Read more about TEDx.

For parents: Join our digital community on Facebook. It's a safe, supportive and nonjudgmental space where everyone understands what your family is going through because they live it, too.

For professionals: We'd love to welcome you to join our Community of Practice on Facebook, to share information, ideas, concerns and best practices.

Sign up to our mailing list to keep in touch with developments in our work.