Help Children Develop
Learn Cooperation:
Is it behavior, manners or personality that parents want to change.
- Teach cooperation by being cooperative and considerate to your child and other people.
- Teach sharing as a social skill, say please and thank you.
- Model or demonstrate the exact behavior you want the child to do. Practice that action or behavior with your child; actually "rehearse it" with her.
- Plan, ahead of time, what you want to do when your child misbehaves. Talk to other family members so you can follow the same steps each time.
- Explain the steps of the plan to your child.
- Listen and take turns listening and talking; let your child talk and you listen.
- Offer encouragement; you don't want to offer empty praise.
- "Catch" your child doing the right thing. Pay attention to "Good" behavior and ignore minor "Bad" behavior.
- Get help handling children who are out of control, if you can; if not, stay calm, talk to yourself, talk yourself out of being angry or resentful.
- Write a list with your child of rewards that are meaningful and valuable to him, these are privileges he or she can do or have if good behavior occurs.
- Don't threaten, nag, criticize; give compliments, before you talk about situations that are not positive.
