Thursday, August 20, 2009

Expanding on class and workshop ideas.

Experience a greater awareness of being the extradinary parent that you are; by bringing out the very best in your child.

Classes and workshops

1. Communication and tone of voice.
2. reinforcements, incentives, and ways to motivate
3. ways to utilize the strengths of the child
4. enthusing a child with compliments

Until next time,

Marie Zajac CPC
Certified Life Coach
Positivity Life Coach

1 comment:

RONNI said...

Bringing out the best in parents, bringing out the bext in children!

1. COMMUNICATION

words to use (don't use "no"); don't use absolutes; give them an alternative to "not right now;" firm voice but with empathy and not condescending

2. REINFORCEMENTS

postive in nature; ignore acts you want to suppress; identify acts you want to continue and reward based on those; fixed interval reward system tends to work better than intermittent reward system; allowing the child to update tracking helps to reinforce positive behaviors; allowing child to have input into the reward also helps to reinforce positive behaviors

3. STRENGTHS

recognizing the talents a child has and then fostering those should developing them further be a goal of the child's

4. COMPLIMENTS

same as "reinforcements?"

5. VALUING A CHILD

be respectful to the child; listen to them; don't dictate to them; as much as is age appropriate, include them in decision-making; model the behaviour you want to see when dealing with others