Dealing with a child experiencing past life recall will be one of the most difficult, heart wrenching, confusing experiences you will ever deal with. Any parent wants to protect their child from hurting but in this case, you can't fix things for your child. Only they can come to terms with integrating their past life self with their present life self. You can't do it for them because it's not YOUR past life, it's THEIRS.

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In cases of violent past life deaths, trauma is involved. In helping your child integrate their past and present life selves you're helping him/her heal that trauma. That's the reason these past life memories come up - to heal that trauma.  Unfortunately, there's no easy way to do this other than to support your child through that journey.

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A big note of warning here: DO NOT BRING YOUR PERSONAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER BELIEFS INTO THIS PROCESS! You will make a difficult process even worse for both your child and yourself!

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There's not a religion on earth that has the reincarnation process right. Not a one. And it doesn't matter whether YOU believe in reincarnation or not - your child has and is experiencing it regardless of your personal beliefs!
You cannot tell a child experiencing past life recall that reincarnation doesn't exist because they've already experienced the process so they know it does exist and you risk alienating your child by negating that experience that they already know DOES exist.

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Rather, keep an open mind and leave your personal beliefs out of it. You may find (as many of the parents in The Ghost Inside My Child series did), going through the process just may change your belief system about reincarnation and past lives.

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SLEEP HABITS: Very often sleep disturbances are part of this process. Your child may start experiencing night terrors, nightmares, dreams about their own past life death, sleepwalking or running through the house in the middle of the night. Newborns may sleep for very long periods of time unlike other newborns or it can go in the opposite direction - they'll sleep only when exhaustion overtakes them.
Some children refuse to sleep alone in their bedrooms and will insist on crawling into bed with you.
 

While these sleep disturbances tend to scare the parents half to death, realize this is the past life memories moving from the subconscious to the conscious and this must happen in order for the child to integrate their past life and current selves and heal past life trauma. They can't acknowledge and heal what's buried in their subconscious. As horrific as they are in your eyes it's a necessary part of the process that these memories surface so your child can get on with healing and living as their current selves and not in the past as who they used to be.

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Another warning: I'm not any kind of medical professional so am not giving medical advice here. I'm just stating what's normally been found across the board. Many parents conclude past life experiences and their "symptoms" have a medical or psychological cause so they rush their child to doctors who perform brain scans, etc. only for the scan to reveal there's nothing medically wrong with the child. Or they rush their child to a psychiatrist/psychologist who slaps a label on them.

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You know your child better than anyone. If you feel medical or psychological help is needed by all means get your child that professional help! Far better to be safe than sorry. 
I just want you to be aware that in the majority of cases, no medical problem is found so that you can take an informed course of action.

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These memories surfacing can cause high anxiety in your child and if this anxiety becomes debilitating then you do need to seek professional help to deal with that anxiety in your child.
If you feel your child does need psychiatric/psychological help then seek out a therapist who has experience dealing with these past life recall experiences. I can't emphasize that strongly enough.

What can you as a parent expect to experience with your child? Children react differently to these past life recall experiences. Some take it in stride, some don't - but the following list are fairly common tendencies and behaviors:
 

• If your child remembers precisely who they were and their name in their past life, they may insist you call them by that past life name and some even want their current names changed to that of their past life name.
   

• Kids will often say things like "No, you're my mom NOW but you're not my real mom from before". This is merely them differentiating between their past life family and their current family so don't take remarks like this personally. Others might say something like "Why did you take me away from my family?"
   

• They may remember the actual reincarnation process taking place so will say things like "I was with God in Heaven and he sent me back here to live with you." One little boy described it this way:
  "God put me on a white horse and I rode him down here and I came in through your head, Mom."
  While that sounds amusing it is what actually happens. The consciousness or essence of that past life person prior to conception, enters via the mother's head and moves downward into the body!
   

• These kids often describe people they knew in their past life and/or deceased family members they seemingly would have no knowledge of, visiting them and speaking with them. This actually happens but those who can't see these visitors as the child can chalk it up to the child having "imaginary friends".
   

• Some kids will report watching you from "Heaven" and choosing you as their reincarnation parents. This actually does happen. We orchestrate our own reincarnations including who our parents and family will be in that reincarnation. We choose the family we reincarnate into.
   

• Many having past life recall will instantly recognize specific geographic locations that played a role in their past life. For example, in one of the Ghost Inside My Child episodes a little girl who used to be a Rockefeller visited the Rockefeller summer home. The fact the dinner china was wrong, some of the furniture didn't match her memories, the placement of furniture in rooms didn't match her memories, greatly upset her. Yet when her mom told her it was time to leave she pitched a royal hissy fit that she was NOT leaving, this was HER house and her parents had to bodily carry her out of the house, kicking and screaming to get her to leave.
  So these kids can not only recognize these prior locations but feel that's where they belong.
   

• The majority will exhibit seemingly nonsensical (to you) fears that are so severe they can lead to panic attacks. For example, a child who died in a plane crash but who's never been on a plane in this life may go into a panic and refuse to get on any plane. They may panic at the mere suggestion they board a plane.