How do you choose consequences for misbehavior? How can you use consequences that help your child learn from a mistake? How do you avoid huge, inappropriate consequences?
Asking To Go To A Party
How do you respond when your teen surprises you with asking to go to a party? What do you say when you really think your teen should be studying instead?
Complaining About Food
How do you respond when your child complains about the food being served? The pressure is higher when your child does this in a public setting like a restaurant.
Kids Biting
No parent wants their child to be the biter at preschool! How do you respond if your child is biting others?
Critical Comments Flow Freely from Parents
Do you make more positive
comments or negative comments to your children on a typical day? If you are
like many parents, you make a lot more negative comments than positive ones.
You may not even realize how often you are doing it.
Misbehavior quickly catches your attention. This fits with the negativity bias.
The negativity bias is the tendency to notice negative behavior more easily and
to dwell on it. This means it is easier to see your kids' poor behavior than
their good behavior.
Criticizing Kids
What do you do when your kids' behavior is outside your expectations? Isn't it
your job to point out what your kids are doing wrong so that they can improve
their behavior?
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Helping Kids Whose Behavior Is Not Normal
Is your child developmentally on track? It can be hard to know if you
don’t have many other similarly aged children for comparison.
Teachers, pediatricians, and child psychologists can provide insight
based on all the other children they see.
Although all children are on a similar developmental path, they progress
in their own way. Some babies are walking at 6 months and others not
until 18 months. As long as your child is walking by 18 months, there
is no reason for concern.
Your child’s developmental milestones can be looked at on a bell curve.
Your child may excel in one area but be behind in another area. For
example, maybe your child can read but doesn’t play with other kids.
Considering Your Child’s Abilities
Understanding typical developmental milestones can help you recognize when your child may need help. The
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has information on what most children can do at certain ages. They also tell you what to do if you are concerned about your child’s development.
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