Ideas for Managing Child Discipline and Behaviour
It’s OK Not to Share
Here’s a typical scene involving preschoolers: One child is busily engaged with a toy when a new child comes up and wants it. A nearby adult says: “Be nice and share your toys,” or “Give Ella the pony. You’ve had it a long time.”
What happens? The child is forced to give something up and her play gets interrupted.
She learns that sharing feels bad. It’s the parent who’s sharing here, not the child.
Traditional sharing expects young kids to give up something the instant someone else demands.
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Use These 6 Phrases To Help Your Child Understand What It Means To Share
When toddlers don’t want to share, they are branded as selfish. But they are not at this stage yet. This is their egocentric phase where everything is about the self, and it shows through play.
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Sharing Toys With Siblings: How to Stop the Arguments
“I feel like I need two of everything,” you lament to a friend as your kids argue in the living room.
“It wouldn’t matter. Even if I had two of everything, they would still find something to fight over,” your friend replies.
Sighing, you sip your coffee, close your eyes, and try to ignore the noise.
What if you erased everything you’ve taught your kids about sharing and started fresh? What rules or guidelines would you put in place?
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Tips to Teach Kids Time Management
We all know that before school starts we need to schedule annual checkups and go back-to-school shopping, but how do we set our kids up for success that will last through the school year and beyond?
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How to Teach Time Management Skills to Teens
While your teen may think it's fine to wait until the last possible second to complete her high school science lab or her math project, procrastination can be a big problem later in life.
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Best Time Management Games
Time management games are fun, enjoyable, but also eye-opening, as they correlate to your real-life time management skills. Here’s everything you need to know about their usefulness, complete with a list of great time management games you and your kids can play.
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Dealing with Children’s Behavior: 15 Great Games to Play When Your Kids Say No
When a child says no, gets very particular about certain routines, refuses to co-operate or acts silly when he attempts a task, he could be telling you he needs to connect. Try these connected play responses to turn things around.
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6 Simple Games That Teach Your Kid Self-Regulation
The younger kids learn to control their emotions and behaviour, the more successful they are in classroom learning—and life. These fun games will help.
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11 Free Printable Behavior Charts for Kids
Behavior charts can be an effective way of having kids work towards a goal. With regular use of a printable behavior chart, parents can help kids achieve behavior improvement in a fun and positive way. Keep reading to get your free printable behavior charts for kids, as well as lots of tips on how behavior charts work.
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Behaviours That Respond Well to Reward Systems
Reward systems are positive consequences that encourage behavior change and include motivators like sticker charts, token economy systems, point systems, or behavior charts. These rewards are used to encourage change in some way.
Once your child has mastered a new behavior, rewards can be phased out and replaced with praise. There are many behaviors that respond well to a reward system. Here's an overview of how to utilize reward systems for behavior change.
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5 Best Child Reward System Ideas That Will Really Make A Positive Impact
Even the most well-behaved kids sometimes need a little encouragement to be polite, respectful, and obedient.
If you’re looking for some ways to really make a positive impact on your child’s behavior, child reward systems are a great approach.
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The Ticket Reward Method for Kids
As parents, we are always trying to come up with ideas to solve some of our biggest struggles. Let's see how we teach our children responsibility with ticket reward method.
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Easy and Effective Reward System for Kids
The goal of this reward system is simple: Fill your jar with cotton balls. They get a cotton ball for doing something nice or saying something kind, without prompting. Easy enough, right?
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Sensory Strategies to Help Kids Focus In The Online Classroom
If you’re struggling to keep your child focused and calm for online school, you are not alone.
There are specific, yet simple adjustments you can make in your child’s environment to help improve their endurance for online learning. Certain sensory strategies and environmental adaptations can be made to support your child’s overall attention and focus.
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Sensory Break Ideas for Kids
Sensory breaks are a way for any child, whether they have sensory needs or not, to reset, decompress, and get the blood flowing back into their brains. Giving them breaks throughout their day lets their brains take a rest and reset, but they are also still learning vital life skills in these sensory breaks.
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Brain Break Videos by GoNoodle
GoNoodle videos get kids moving to be their strongest, bravest, silliest, smartest, best selves. Bookmark this channel for a ton of quick fun movement videos and let your kids to choose their favourite brain break movements!
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Help Parents and Caregivers Keep Kids Focused, Interested, and Balanced While Learning From Home
At this point, the distance learning scenario isn't entirely new. We have more information about what works for kids and what doesn't. And the hope is that we -- parents, caregivers, teachers, and school leaders -- are now better prepared to support kids in their social, emotional, and academic growth during the pandemic.
Here are some nitty-gritty tips to help parents and caregivers keep kids focused, interested, and balanced while learning from a distance.
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7 Ways To Get Kids To Actually Pay Attention During Remote Learning
“Recognize that paying attention online might be harder for some kids. And that’s OK! Some kids need more strategies,” said Megan Allen. Here are seven ways to try to get all kids — but especially young learners — to pay attention during remote learning.
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6 Things Not to Do While Distance Learning and Expert Tips on What to Do Instead
Virtual learning isn't easy. But experts share tips on how to set easy boundaries and make remote learning a better experience for your kids.
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Managing Student Behavior with Online Learning
10 tips for parents to set up students for success with online learning!
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Tips and Scripts for Managing Screen Time When School Is Online
For years we've been stressing about screen time and our kids, and then -- poof! -- the pandemic hits, and screens are a lifeline to their friends and extended family. For many, it's also how they'll be learning for the foreseeable future.
So even though we might not cherish the idea of our kids sitting in front of a computer for hours on end for school and play, we may need to adjust the way we think -- and talk -- about screens if we want our kids to thrive during this time.
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How to Control Children’s Screen Time in the Age of Online Learning
While keeping children screen time usage in check is not easy because parents will also be working from home and may not have ample time to closely check a child’s computer or tablet usage, there are many tips that can help parents work things out.
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Tools That Let Parents Know, and Feel Good About, What Kids Are Doing
Explore the wealth of tools and resources available for families to manage their children’s devices, set restrictions on their usage, and setup Family Sharing.
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Praise, Encouragement and Rewards
No matter how old your children are, your praise and encouragement will help them feel good about themselves. This boosts their self-esteem and confidence. Sometimes rewards can be useful too, especially if you want to encourage good behaviour.
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Kicking And Screaming!
It can be really frustrating and even embarrassing when your toddler throws a tantrum in public. Save yourself the embarrassment and take these steps to defuse the situation.
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Taming Tantrums at Every Age (Ages 3-13)
Check out the calming strategies guaranteed to defuse (almost!) any tantrum, freak out, or meltdown!
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Teen Temper Tantrums: 6 Steps to Stop the Screaming
You can reduce and eliminate teenage tantrums by taking these six steps. But before you start, understand that you need to take these steps when things are calm and no one is being confrontational. Don’t try this in the middle of a full-blown tantrum when you are both on edge.
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Mindful Parenting: Responding to Inappropriateness in Children
The parental journey is a deeply emotional experience with wide-ranging emotions.
Positive emotions and appropriate behaviours are celebrated but inappropriate ones are usually and automatically met with harsh reactions by parents who react, instead of responding constructively.
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Discipline and Guiding Behaviour: Babies and Children
Discipline is helping your child learn how to behave – as well as how not to behave. It works best when you have a warm and loving relationship with your child.
Discipline doesn’t mean punishment. In fact, discipline and discipline strategies are positive.
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10 Simple Ways to Improve Children’s Behavior (Home and School)
This article gives 10 simple strategies that you can start implementing right now to encourage positive behavior in your child/students.
All of these strategies are positive in nature and will help you connect with your child/student(s) in a way that will increase their confidence, self-respect, and respect for you.
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What You Can Do to Change Your Child’s Behaviour?
There are many things that can cause a child to have temper tantrums, emotional outbursts, and general “bad” or unexpected behavior.
These can include biological reasons, like being hungry or overtired. They can also include emotional reasons, like not being able to cope with or describe their feelings. Their environment can also influence behavior.
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Whose Fault When Children Disobey?
All parents get angry at their children. But there are hugely more effective ways to discipline than anger.
Kim Constable, radical unschooling mother of four, discusses how disciplining with anger actually has the opposite effect to the one you want.
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How to Discipline Your Child (When Nothing Else Seems to be Working)
What is the best way to discipline your child? When you find yourself trying everything from counting to timeout with no success, it may be time to explore a new approach.
In this episode of Mom Docs, Dr. Dehra Harris discusses leveraging alternative behavioral techniques to discipline your child.
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Using Discipline and Consequences: What Would You Do?
Responding to your child's behavior problems can be tough at times.
Watch this video to see some common problem behaviors and how the parents handled them.
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How To Instill Discipline In Teenagers
Great parenting video on how to get the best out of your teenager. Click on Subscribe to stay up to date with great content.
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How to Deal With a Very Angry Child
Anger is a powerful emotion and it can be quite alarming to see your child in the throes of rage. However, remember that it’s completely normal and acceptable for children to feel angry from time to time.
Supernanny expert, Dr Victoria Samuel, gives some tips for how to deal with a very angry child.
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Discipline Strategies for Teenagers
Discipline isn’t about punishment. It’s about guiding children towards appropriate ways to behave.
For teenagers, discipline is about agreeing on and setting appropriate limits and helping them behave within those limits.
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Why Children and Siblings Fight
Disagreements are a fact of life when children get together, and fights can start if they aren’t sorted out. Many factors affect kids fighting – temperament, environment, age and social skills.
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Teenage Sibling Fighting
Teenage sibling fighting is normal, and the way you handle it can help your children learn important skills.
This video guide shows you how different approaches to teenage sibling fighting get different results. It's good to know you've got options, and you can choose the ones that suit your family best.
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Problem-Solving With Teenagers
In this short video demonstration, two teenage siblings are having a problem sharing and respecting each other’s space. So far, they haven’t been able to solve the problem themselves, and this has led to conflict and fights. Their dad uses a problem-solving approach to resolve their ongoing conflict.
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20 Tips to Encourage Good Behaviour in Teenagers
Good behaviour in teenagers starts with positive communication and a warm relationship.
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