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Focus 90 percent of your energy on positive behaviors. Catch your children being good. If you take the positive for granted, improvements in your child’s behavior will not occur. If you use time-outs to correct misbehavior and forget to reinforce good behavior, time-outs will not be effective. Without the positive emphasis, using time-out by itself will not work.

Saving for myself:
Time-out technique (safe and effective use):

How it works: The child is briefly removed from a fun or stimulating situation and asked to sit in a safe, boring spot.

Duration: About 1 minute per year of the child’s age (e.g., 3 minutes for a 3-year-old).

Appropriate time-out spots:
A chair in a quiet corner of the living room or kitchen
A step on the staircase (if safe)
A chair facing a blank

Every time you find your children playing nicely, thank them for being cooperative. When you see your son making an effort to clean his room, mention how proud you feel.
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When positive behaviors are ignored, they may be replaced by misbehavior.
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When you make excuses for your children, you are giving your children reasons to misbehave in the future. They will use these excuses to argue and avoid responsibility.

Tell your children how you expect them to behave, then follow through with appropriate consequences. Be consistent with this technique and your children will make better decisions.

Gets better towards the end by moving away from the view that children are soulless demons who want to gain power over grownups for the purpose of making their lives miserable. About time.

No. This is so disciplinarian. Horrible.

No. Too old-school.

Straightforward obvious stuff. Like, people will do as you do not as you say.