--- title: 'ODD How to manage challenging behaviour at home: Tips for Parents' url: 'https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/toolkit/home-life/tips-for-parents/managing-challenging-behaviour-at-home' markdown: 'https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/toolkit/home-life/tips-for-parents/managing-challenging-behaviour-at-home.md' date: '2026-10-15' description: "Learn 9 expert-backed tips to help you manage challenging, defiant behaviour at home, understand what's really driving it, and strengthen your connection with your child - even on the hardest days. It can be draining and lonely parenting a child with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) or conduct disorder. Children with ODD show persistent disruptive behaviour and hostility towards authority figures that goes beyond typical childhood defiance. This film brings together guidance from experts and parents on how to understand what's behind the behaviour, stay calm under pressure, and build routines and responses that actually work. Whatever your child's age, these tips offer practical, compassionate strategies to help you manage the day-to-day, set boundaries that stick, and remind you that you don't have to do this alone." taxonomy: category: - Toolkit contributor: - 'Dr Sian Williams' tag: - ODD - 'Conduct Disorder' - 'Challenging Behaviour' - 'Home Life' type: - Video --- # Oppositional Defiant Disorder: How to Manage Challenging Behaviour at Home [ ODD ](https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/results/tag:ODD) [ Conduct Disorder ](https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/results/tag:Conduct%20Disorder) [ Challenging Behaviour ](https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/results/tag:Challenging%20Behaviour) [ Home Life ](https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/results/tag:Home%20Life) [ ![Nip in the Bud](https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/user/themes/nitb/images/logos/round-logo.png) ](https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/about-us "About Nip in the Bud") ![Dr Sian Williams](https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/user/pages/06.about-us/02.authors-and-experts/dr-sian-williams/dr-sian-williams.jpg) Speaker [Dr Sian Williams](https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/about-us/authors-and-experts/dr-sian-williams)speaker Duration: 0h 8m 15s Published: October 2026 Learn 9 expert-backed tips to help you manage challenging, defiant behaviour at home, understand what's really driving it, and strengthen your connection with your child - even on the hardest days. It can be draining and lonely parenting a child with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) or conduct disorder. Children with ODD show persistent disruptive behaviour and hostility towards authority figures that goes beyond typical childhood defiance. This film brings together guidance from experts and parents on how to understand what's behind the behaviour, stay calm under pressure, and build routines and responses that actually work. Whatever your child's age, these tips offer practical, compassionate strategies to help you manage the day-to-day, set boundaries that stick, and remind you that you don't have to do this alone. --- Was this helpful? 0 0 Share: [ Previous Post](https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/toolkit/home-life/tips-for-parents/adhd-tips-for-parents-and-carers) [Next Post ](https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/toolkit/home-life/tips-for-parents/what-to-do-when-your-child-has-ptsd-tips-for-parents) #### Other Related Posts: ![](https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/user/pages/05.mental-health/09.conduct-disorder/recognising-conduct-disorder-1/conduct-disorders.jpg) ### Video: Recognising Conduct Disorder: Part One [Video: Recognising Conduct Disorder: Part One](https://nipinthebud.trilbyhost.com/mental-health/conduct-disorder/recognising-conduct-disorder-1) Conduct disorder can look like defiance, aggression, or a persistent disregard for rules. 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