Encouraging Good Behaviour...
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Beat the Clock to Good Behaviour
Children who misbehave often do so because they see it as an option more fun than the good behaviour their parents are trying to teach them. To combat this, parents...
Becoming Single and Promoting Positive Behaviour
There comes in a point in every single parent’s life when they are well on the way to creating a new life for them and their children....
Channelling Energy Towards Good Behaviour
When kids are bouncing off the walls with energy it can seem like one false step will bring on the worst possible behaviour. But just because...
Child Suffered Because of Friendship Problems: A Case Study
Friendships are a tricky area of parenting because even though we want our children to have a social group, we worry about whether their friends...
Coping With Behaviour Changes After a Long School Break
A long break from school is what all children look forward to, in fact most of them start counting the days from the beginning of term! Whether...
Curbing Inappropriate Behaviour
Parents may never know why their kids’ behaviour is the way it is, but there are ways that parents can curb inappropriate behaviour from their children. Discussing...
Eliminating Opportunities for Inappropriate Behaviour
Kids very often turn to inappropriate behaviour for one of a few main reasons: they are bored, they are tired, they are hungry, they want...
Encouraging Good Table Manners
It can be hard enough to get a meal prepared, all of the kids to the table, and everyone to eat what is on their plates without having to worry about table manners...
Free Rewards for Good Behaviour
Offering kids rewards for good behaviour is one way to help children connect making appropriate choices with positive outcomes. If you are thinking of offering your...
Friend Helped Me Cope With My Parents Divorce: A Case Study
Family problems can impact heavily on children, and they often rely on their friends for support when things are difficult at home. For Max, 13,...
How Much Time Do You Spend Together as a Family?
We all start out with great intentions each week that we will spend more time together as a family, and less time worrying out money, our jobs...
How Your Relationship Affects Your Child's Behaviour
You may have always been a single parent, and knew that even before your baby was born that you would be bringing them up alone, or you may be...
Inexpensive Rewards for Good Behaviour
Children who receive rewards for good behaviour make the connection early on between acting appropriately and gaining a good outcome. However, if...
Modelling Good Behaviour
Parents may not always realise how much their children look up to them, and this is particularly true of young children who learn to copy their parents’ behaviour....
Reading With Your Child
Reading with your child should be one of life’s most enjoyable experiences – but for some, things go wrong early on and it is hard to get things back on track....
Reward Charts for Good Behaviour
Kids misbehave for a variety of reasons, but there is no reason that learning appropriate behaviour can’t be fun for kids. Children often enjoy a challenge when...
Top Tips for Working as a Team to Encourage Good Behaviour
There is no right way or wrong way to raise your children. Everyone has a different style and idea of what works with their own children and that...
Using Humour to Encourage Good Behaviour
Children respond well to humour. After all what child doesn’t like to laugh, particularly along with his or her parents? Jokes and gags are...
When Children Resist Doing Homework
However fondly we might look back on our own schooldays, all of us surely remember the groans of despair when given homework, particularly if issued on a Friday...
