subject: How To Control Child Misbehavior - Making Your Home A Harmonious Place Again [print this page] How To Control Child Misbehavior - Making Your Home A Harmonious Place Again
Imagine going to see a clinical psychologist about how to control child misbehavior. First, you will need quite a lot of money and secondly there will be several sessions to attend before you begin to see any results at all. That was why I was delighted to read Russell A. Barkley's book called Your Defiant Child - 8 Steps To Better Behavior. That summed up for me what many parents need to know and also reflects what I have learned as a parent on many child behavior programs. You just need to choose the right one.
Basically the principles of learning how to control child misbehavior is to go easy on criticism and punishment while concentrating on praise for good behavior. There are also some really good suggestions for inventing better ways to give incentives to kids so that they are steered towards better behavior. That is after all a parent's mission. We have to reprogram our children's behavior so that it is in line with our family's values and a decent society in the bigger world outside our home.
The best child behavior programs will explain just what is going on inside a child's head and that is so important to start to understand why he may be behaving like that.
I also like the approach where we have to catch the child being good, rather than catch him misbehaving. This approach helps the positive reinforcement principle. Then I found that the best thing we need is to implement ways to encourage and actually provide the incentives to behave more responsibly. Using a token system which is highly visual is a great way to keep track of progress towards acceptable behavior and the elimination of disruptive and inappropriate behavior.
Let us take the problem of setting limits on mobile phone, video games, TV and Internet as one of the areas where we have to encourage kids and teens to behave responsibly. The temptation is to spend all their time on these and start living in a virtual world. This may affect more creative activities. Set a time limit for media time which your kid will hate but also involve them in the discussion so that they see the dangers and the pitfalls.
These are just a few of the things that you can discover when you follow a child behavior program. Where your home was once a battlefield will now become a much more harmonious place which can be even fun to live in. Why not check out the program below which will help you to control child misbehavior for good.
