Like everyone else, children sometimes need to save face when they make a mistake or don’t behave well. Be sensitive to children’s needs in these situations.
Rewarding children for good behaviour works better than criticising and punishing children for unacceptable behaviour. Positive attention and praise are the best rewards parents can give to a child of any age. Even small children really want to please their parents.
There are some principles or guidelines which, if applied consistently, encourage children (and adults) to behave well. • Give positive attention to Praising children with appreciation and hugs for good behaviour is far more effective than criticising and punishing them for things they do wrong. • Ignore little things Intervene...
From refrigerators plastered with A+ papers to cars bearing “honour student” bumper stickers, there are many ways parents like to show off how whip-smart their kids are. But while Mom and Dad mean well, some types of praise could be doing their children a disservice. Science says that praising your...
To be human is to have regrets. There will always be things we wish we hadn’t done, events we wish we could undo, words we wish we’d said a little more often. But how can we go about turning those regrets into something positive and productive? If we can’t go...
