Problems in young children

Emotional and behaviour problems in preschool children have been found to be common and persistent through early childhood (Richman et al., 1982).They may occur because of difficulties with the interaction of the child’s developmental skills, his temperament and the parenting the child receives. The parenting the child receives will depend on the parenting skills of the parent, which in turn would depend on the parents’ background, knowledge and the style of parenting they received as a child, the parents’ own temperament, emotional health and ‘space’ for parenting.This would depend on the support the parent had for the task of parenting and what other pressures impinge on the parent, e.g. financial and housing pressures