This guide offers parents fresh perspectives and simple skills
to encourage good behavior in children and reduce stress for the
entire family. Emphasizing personal choice, free will, and
dispassionate parent-child interactions, Dr. William H. Hughes's
step-by-step approach has been developed, tested, and proven to
work time and again by child psychiatrists.
Dr. Hughes demonstrates how parents must allow their children to
decide for themselves whether they will cooperate and how they will
act. Effective parenting builds character and increases
self-confidence. Here, kids learn that they can choose to
behave--and be rewarded for it. Dr. Hughes recommends that
parents:
- Set expectations. Make clear what the expected behavior is,
whether it's doing homework or taking out the trash. - Monitor
behavior. Keep an eye on what children are supposed to be doing,
but let them decide for themselves whether they will complete the
task. - Reward. Verbally praise good behavior and offer kids a
reward. Let them play video games for an hour or invite a friend to
a sleepover.
Many parents are convinced that reward systems simply do not
work. Dr. Hughes explains why his approach gets the desired results
while other approaches do not. By not engaging in power struggles
and giving rewards only when expectations have been met, parents
teach their kids that in choosing good behavior they are choosing
rewards--and rewards "will" motivate kids to act better. Dr. Hughes
also outlines a clear strategy for dealing with kids who just won't
take no for an answer.
The book encourages parents to modify their "own" behavior,
teaching them to shift their focus away from battling with their
kids and to use their energy to help their children develop winning
habits and attitudes for life.
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