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...
So what is a consequence? Well, quite simply a consequence is an outcome or a result. Consequences can be positive or negative. In behavioral psychology, a positive consequence is typically referred to as reward and a negative consequence is typically referred to as punishment. Here,...