Using positive reinforcement to change your child's behavior

Using Positive Reinforcement to Change Your Child's Behavior

I chose this subject because I am becoming more interested in the ways to talk to kids now to receive better behavior. In the past ourparents told us what to do, what not to do and sometimes the child would not understand the reasons they were being punished. But now days, the kids question adult’s authority looking for reasons whythey can’t do this or that and the comunication is more open between children and their parents and teachers. Adults are finding that positive reinforcement is a better way to comunicate with kids sothat they understand the reasons for changing their behavior .
Sometimes  we didn’t notice the positive things they do and focus more in the negative behavior because they annoy us. if we get themnoticed only the negative they would feel that way and do it again, because they would say  I'm only noticed when I do something wrong, then so be it . Most of their behavior is controlled by theconsequences. Thats why it’s important  to notice our children's positive behavior. Most of their behavior is controlled by the consequences. It’s wrong to believe that if we are rewarding kids forpositive behavior it will be bribery because these rewards are going to motivate them to continue the behavior for which they  received positiive attention. These rewards are not going to be effective ifthey are used to stop an inappropriate behavior, for example to say you will give them a cookie if they stop whining.This only encourages the inappropriate behavior. Rewarding them for positive behavioris much more productive.
It’s easy to use a  positive reinforcement to strengthen a desired behavior if we use them  when  the behavior occurs. We can use  praise, a pat on the back or a specialprivilege. For example, you can say “I really appreciate how you came in the house when  I asked”  or  “your bedroom looks awesome”or “you must have worked really hard on it and I bet you worked up a...