HOW TO BUILD GOOD BEHAVIOR AND SELF-ESTEEM IN CHILDREN

by Henry D. Schlinger Jr.

Do you find it challenging to get your child to do what you ask? Does your child cry, whine, argue, or throw tantrums? Are you curious about what you can teach your infant? Are you looking for things you can do to build new behaviors or improve existing behaviors that can make you and your child happier?Take control of your own actions and those of your children with How to Build Good Behavior and Self-Esteem in Children, written by international scholar and professor of psychology and behavior analysis Dr. Henry Schlinger.This practical guidebook — perfect for parents, caregivers, and practitioners —will teach you how to solve any behavior problem with principles based on behavior science. Specifically, it will help you learn more positive ways to engage with your child by rewarding the right behaviors and, in the process, building self-esteem. Written in an interactive style, the book includes fill-in-the-blanks and questions in each chapter to ensure you understand and remember the key concepts. Step-by-step instructions for your own behavior change projects help you put your new knowledge to work.How to Build Good Behavior and Self-Esteem in Children is the parenting manual you’ve been looking for.

Genres: School

211 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 2, 2021

Reviews

[Robin · Rating 4 out of 5]

5 stars but don’t let that fool you, I’m still pissed at the author. (If you’re reading this and it’s dropped down to 4, read on to see why).

5 stars because: As far as a toolkit for parents struggling with challenging behaviors, this book is incredible. It really crystallizes how behavior works, how (and why) parents unintentionally reinforce (aka strengthen) undesired behaviors, and gives solid guidance around how parents can change their behavior to make sure we’re reinforcing the behavior in our kids we want to see more of. Reading this book dramatically shifted how I see and respond to my kids’ behavior, even before I’d gotten to the end.

But hey: I have a neurotypical child and a child who has ASD with severe ADHD. I’m intimately familiar not just with the behavior challenges, but the huge impacts to all aspects of daily life that these diagnoses can describe. Dr. Schlinger (thankfully only briefly) outright questions the validity of ADHD diagnoses and gets pretty dismissive of Autism as a diagnosis. Pretty sure he (or maybe his editors) could have handled the topic of “proper reinforcement can minimize impact of these concerns” in a way that doesn’t suggest that parents are creating all their children’s problems.

**okay had to change it to four stars BECAUSE as the author would agree, I don’t want to positively reinforce his behavior of dismissing diagnoses with the reward of full marks. Still think it’s an amazing & important read for parents with hard kids (and even not-hard kids).