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Applying Behavioral Principles in the home and family Clearly communicate your expectations to your children. Ignore inconsequential behavior. Selectively reinforce appropriate behaviors. Stop, then redirect inappropriate behavior. Stay close to your children.
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 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. |
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| Strategy Two |
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Ignore inconsequential |
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Most annoying behaviors of children are not worth paying attention to at all. |
| "Which behaviors should be attended to and which shouldn't?" Certainly, there is no way of identifying with absolute certainty, but, as a general rule of thumb, age-typical behaviors such a mild sibling rivalry and when children are just being mouthy with one another, should be ignored. |
| Occasionally, children will scrap with each other even to the point of pushing, shoving, grabbing, and hitting, more for the purpose of annoying than for hurting. These behaviors can usually be ignored. Just turn your back on them or completely walk out of the room. Say nothing about them. Don't even look at the children when they are behaving this way. Behave as though the children are not even there. |
| Children who fuss over toys or territory or what's fair should generally be ignored. Children who argue with one another and exchange meaningless verbal blows should be left alone. |
| To sum it up, I'm reminded of the biblical admonition to "Be slow to anger," and of the Chinese proverb, "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." Be slow to pay attention to behaviors which are basically age-typical and when left alone extinguish because of lack of attention. Behaviors that fall in this category tend to become apparent within a short period of time. |
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Place your emphasis on building relationships between you and your children in many positive ways. |
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