| Let Parenting Prescriptions help you improve your parenting and heal your family relationships. See your child grow in confidence, self-esteem, and discipline. |
| Join the positive parents around the world. Begin using positive Parenting Prescriptions® by Dr. Glenn Latham. |
 |
|
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
How Behavior Develops some important principles Behavior is strengthened or weakened by its consequences. Behavior ultimately responds better to positive consequences. Whether a behavior has been punished or reinforced is known only by the course of that behavior in the future. Behavior is largely a product of its immediate environment.
|
 Read detailed explanations, examples, and role-playing experiences in the parent's manual to raising children in a positive way, The Power of Positive Parenting. |
 |
|
Four Positive Parenting Principles |
|
Although human behavior cannot always be predicted with absolute certainty, it can be predicted at high levels of accuracy. |
|
Science is a wonderful thing. A really wonderful thing! From it we can learn so much if we will only listen to what it has to teach us. Nowhere is this more true than with human behavior, the things people say and do. As with physics, chemistry, or any of the other so-called "hard sciences", human behavior is lawful. It is predictable. Furthermore, as with physics, chemistry, and the hard sciences, research in human behavior has taught us about laws that govern human behavior and how to predict human behavior given a description of the environment within which it occurs. |
| Below, especially for parenting purposes, are four principles of human behavior, which, if well understood and applied, make it possible for us to skillfully create and predict positive behavioral events in our environment. |
| There is nothing mythical nor magical about what happens when behavioral principles are skillfully applied, though parents often tell me "a miracle has happened in my home" when they apply these principles well. Indeed, it might seem miraculous, but in fact, it is simply a lawful, predictable, cause-and-effect relationship that can be repeated time and time again in an infinite array of settings. |
| 1.
Behavior is strengthened or weakened by its consequences. Consequences shape behavior far more than do genes. |
| 2.
Behavior ultimately responds better to positive consequences. The more parents scold, spank, and scream to control their children's behavior, the worse the children behave. |
| 3.
Whether a behavior has been punished or reinforced is known only by
the course of that behavior in the future. Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. |
| 4.
Behavior is strengthened or weakened by its consequences. Fix the environment and you'll fix the behavior. |
|
|