ssssThe Weekly WordTeaching Children New Behaviors (continued)
Did you teach your child to self check? Once you have taught your child the correct behavior and practiced it, you will have to show your child how to check his or her behavior. When you are with your child at the store, stop and say, “Check yourself! Are you walking quietly? Are you close enough to me? Can I hear you? Can I see you?” If your child can answer “yes” to all your questions have him give himself a check. Use pennies or tokens that your child can save to see how many times he/she used the right behaviors. Coach your child through a difficult activity. Perhaps going to church is difficult for your child. You will need to coach your child through this activity. Even if you remind your child of the expected behaviors, your child may not have the skills to sit for 30-45 minutes in a large group. You may have to sit with your child and show your child how to cope with a less stimulating activity. Tell your child to look around the room, count the people, count people wearing red shirts, etc. Maybe your child can read a book or draw quietly. These activities will help your child stay occupied while sitting and waiting. Without guidance, a child might sit for several minutes and then ask to use the rest room, get a book, or become disruptive.
Have your child select a reinforcer or a reward and talk about natural consequences. Children need to be part of any strategy that you are going to use to change their behavior. Give them a choice of several rewards and/or reinforcers and let them select the one they want to work for. You may have to change the rewards or reinforcers to keep your child motivated. A reinforcer is something that helps your child continue doing a difficult activity. (Reading a book to your child during a long wait at the clinic will help your child sit quietly). A reward is something you give your child after the activity is over. (You promise to read your child a story before he goes to bed -if your child sits quietly at the clinic).
Remember to talk to children about the natural consequences for not doing what they are told as they select a reward.
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| A Thorn in My Pocket This excerpt from her book gives insight into what Eustacia felt as a mother. 'I’m practicing Bach at the piano and Temple, now perhaps 2 1/2 but still not speaking, is on the floor beside me, absorbed in crumpling a newspaper, humming to herself, squeezing the paper, watching it slowly spring open, shredding it, gazing at the pieces that float about her. I try to entice her with colored plastic cups and spoons, but she won’t look at me. “See the bright colors? See how the cups fit together? Now the spoons. Isn’t that fun?” She stares for a moment and returns to her newspaper. I tell myself that children find their own playthings and don’t have to be entertained with what we think of as toys. But she looks so forlorn, sitting there absorbed in her tattered plaything, sooty with newspaper ink. Like a slum child nobody cares for. My pretty baby with her blue eyes and blond curls. She who would prefer me to leave her alone. The snub cuts deep. Eerie in her calm refusal to engage, she’s closed the door on me, polite but firm. And so with the best intentions we each neglect the other. Isolated, numb, we play it safe, I in my world, she in hers. But what is her world? I turn back to the Bach. I’m not very good at it, but it’s better than nothing. She hums. She’s humming the Bach.' |
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A B C's of Homework
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