Encouraging Good Behaviour

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 is why…

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 and how clean…

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 attention or they are unable…

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…

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 important tools in an adult’s tool…

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 learning good behaviour…

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. Without even…

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…

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 rewards are used too often, they can become…

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