by Leanne Page | Jan 11, 2021 | Parenting in General, Positive Reinforcement
What should we say when our kids are having big feelings? When our kids are having those big emotional reactions that we just want to jump in and fix…pause instead and just name what is going on. Name the feeling: I can see that you are…(sad,...
by Leanne Page | Nov 22, 2020 | Parenting in General, Positive Reinforcement
On big days, go for extra. Extra reinforcement. Extra prompting. Extra support. In behavior speak- consider the setting events. Setting events are things that can affect our children’s’ behavior, maybe even make problem behavior more likely. They aren’t triggers or...
by Leanne Page | Oct 26, 2020 | Parenting in General, Positive Reinforcement, Teaching Tools
When you ask your child to do something and they flat out refuse, what do you do?? What do we do about that word ‘NO’?! First of all, the goal of using behavior tools is NOT blind compliance. We don’t want our kids to be little robots without a backbone. We want our...
by Leanne Page | Oct 19, 2020 | Parenting in General, Positive Reinforcement
When you give an instruction, your kids listen and can even tell you what you just said, but they just won’t actually do the thing…now what?! When it comes to getting your child to listen to you, many of you said that follow-through is your biggest issue....
by Leanne Page | Oct 14, 2020 | Parenting in General, Positive Reinforcement
Ever feel like you are just speaking into the void and no one cares? You must be a mom- especially a mom in 2020! When it comes to getting your child to listen to you…many of you said that it’s hard to get them to even acknowledge that you are speaking to them! How do...
by Leanne Page | Sep 28, 2020 | Parenting in General, Positive Reinforcement, Teaching Tools
Can giving your child more specific praise help prevent problems and save your sanity? It CAN! What?! Just shifting our perspective to catch our kids being good and then telling our kids what they are doing well can make a HUGE difference with just a little bit of...
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