Basis of a Contract Making a contract with your child is making a deal. You offer to give your child something if he does something. The contracts we will be discussing in this blog are simple verbal contracts that occur in daily living activities. A contract follows the relationship that “if you do this, I … Read more
Your child will have many learning experiences as she grows. As a parent, you want to make those experiences as positive and successful as possible. You want to be a positive part of your child’s learning. You send your child to school, but, in fact, you are your child’s most important teacher. Mastering some specific … Read more
These questions torment me endlessly! They bore into my sleep and rob me. I fear there are no answers, yet I fear the answers more. Can we survive them? But how can I go on? Who cursed me with these questions? Why do I feel accused? I did not take orders; I was given none. … Read more
How Do Parents Teach The idea that parents are teachers may seem strange to you. Even if you are a credentialed teacher, you may not have thought about yourself as a teacher when it comes to parenting. Our society has segregated teaching to the educational system. Probably because parents are very busy. In this blog … Read more
What is Behavioral Control? When behavioral control is mentioned, most people think about how someone controls another person’s behavior. Interestingly, we seldom think about controlling our own behavior. In addition to who it is that controls the behavior, people likely think about how the behavior is controlled. This process generally involves some kind of response … Read more
If knowing what behavior looks like is going to help us, we have to get into the habit of recognizing its different parts when we need to respond to it in our daily lives. Generally, we ignore behavior because we are focused on other things. However, sometimes behavior demands our attention, and we can’t ignore … Read more
In other blogs, we discussed the other two parts of the behavioral process, antecedents and consequences. The third part is the response. This is the part that people generally identify as behavior. However, it is only part of what we call behavior. In terms of managing or controlling behavior, it is probably the least important … Read more
Often when people talk about behavior they are referring to the response part. But a behavior has three parts: an antecedent, a response, and a consequence. The antecedent is the things that occur just before the response, and the consequence is the things that occur right after the response. The response is a subject’s action … Read more
The world turns but does not go on. How can a mother conceive? Have you seen the photos? Who could conceive such scenes? Have you seen the bodies? Have you felt the anonymity” Who could conceive such scenes? Near one hundred years have passed and the photos still confirm that day. Nine hundred years more … Read more
Rewards Are Complex Rewarding a dog is very simple. Rewarding children is much more complex. For human beings, how a reward is given, what kind of reward is given, how often it is given, and what it is given for all matter. The goal of this blog is to provide some insight into how rewards … Read more