Use Praise to Change your Child's Behaviour

Use Praise to Change Your Child's Behaviour

YES! You CAN use praise to change your child's behaviour! And it DOES work! Children are MORE likely to repeat behaviour that earns praise! I have spent quite a bit of time researching this wonderful concept! The idea is to REPLACE your child's negative behaviour with positive desirable behaviour!

Here Is The Basics of How It Works: 1. Watch for times when your child behaves the way you want. 2. When you see this or another behaviour you like, immediately get your child’s attention. 3. Then tell your child specifically what you liked. 4. At first you praise EVERY time you see the positive behaviour or any improvements. 5. When your child starts doing the behaviour more often, you can praise it less.

Here are some Great Tips for Using Praise to IMPROVE Your Child's Behaviour:

Offer Praise for EFFORT, PROGRESS and ATTITUDE Mercury Venus Focusing only on achievements can demoralize and demotivate a child very quickly. Praising effort motivates and shows the child that you believe in them. For EXAMPLE:"You're working hard on that project!“ "You're getting better and better at reading!“ "I am proud of you for practicing your spelling. You have put a lot of effort into it!" “I have been watching you practice your basketball trick. I'm so proud that you kept trying and didn't give up! I think you will get it right soon with all this practice and patience!" This kind of praise will ENCOURAGE your child to put effort into things and work toward goals. This will help set them up for a SUCCESSFUL future!

DON'T say “Good Job!" Good job is not specific because it does not tell your child exactly what BEHAVIORS or EFFORTS they have done to your liking. For EXAMPLE: “You did a great job of cleaning your room. I especially like the way you put all your toys away in the toy box. This will mean that your toys won't get accidentally broken!“ This helps your child know what behaviors or efforts to REPEAT in the future and why.

Talk about the PROCESSES, ACTIONS and RESULTS Mars Create opportunities to ask your child to consider the processes and actions that led to the good grade, good behaviour outcome or good results of their efforts. Especially ask them about what their EMOTIONS and THOUGHTS were before, during and after. Doing this will help them match the processes, actions, thinking and resulting emotions to the outcomes. This will help them know how to apply themselves the RIGHT ways again in the future.

DON'T Praise Them For Their Appearance This can tie feelings of self-worth with their looks. Appearances are forever changing, and this can create the difficult illusion to your child that they are not worthy or good enough if their appearance is NOT looking perfect. You also DON'T want your child to judge others on appearances only.

Notice ALL Good, Helpful, or Kind Acts Your Child Does • Let them know that you have seen this and appreciated the act and that you are proud of their actions, by clearly describing what you have seen. • Have a discussion on this by asking your child how they felt about their POSITIVE actions before, during and after. • This will GREATLY increase the chance of them repeating this good or kind act another time.

So, try using the RIGHT praise on your child and let me know your results. Check out our 'feel good' pages for insights into your child at MeKeeps.com

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Use Praise to Change your Child's Behaviour