While I don’t want to oversimplify the reasons children misbehave, in general, there tend to be 4 themes or goals of misbehavior . The 4 Goals of Misbehavior: The first is: Attention. Children will often act-out in order to get another’s attention. If things end...
Over the years, I’ve had a number of parents express concern that giving their children allowance or money for grades would essentially be paying them off or bribing them to do what they should be doing in the first place. They essentially feel that their...
When our children steal , it’s natural for us to be concerned. We may even find our minds wandering off to some pretty dark places in attempting to make sense of why our children steal. We may blame ourselves and consider ourselves failures as parents....
No one likes it when their children lie . However, like most everything else, children learn to lie from the people around them. Adults show children in subtle and not so subtle ways to suppress their honesty. “I don’t like this,” a child may say...