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The ABC’s of Positive Parenting for Foster Parents

ABC Program Planning Sheet

Antecedents
Things That Make It Happen

Behavior
Pinpoint Teaching Goal

 Consequencesw
Reinforcers (What/How/When Given)
1. Explain the program to the
    child every morning at 8 a.m.		 (-) talking "back," using swear words, shrieking, hitting, when told what to do in the house or at school 1. Praise him when he's good
2. Show Him what talking aback
    (out of control) looks and
    sounds like.		 (+) He will stay calm and ask permission to talk when he is with other kids in a group two times a day. 2. Give him a check for every /12 hour he doesn't shriek, swear, and talk back.
3. Show him what you prefer -
    talking back by asking
    permission and staying calm.		   3. Give him special time every eventing to do a game with you -- unearned time.
4. Give Him a tape of how
    asking permission to talk and
    talking calmly sounds like.		   4. Make a list of activities that he enjoys for which he can earn rewards.
5. Help him make a scrapbook
    of pictures of men and women
    in sports he likes -- put this
    book in a private place where
    he can go when he loses
    control.		   5. If he talks back, he doses't get a check; doesn't earn a special thing; doesn't get TV or rewards.
6. Make a sign to put on the    
    refrigerator and on the door to      
    his room that reminds him you  
    will only listen to him when he 
    is calm. When he's talking
    back you will (a) give him the
    sign; (b) send him to find his
    scrapbook; (c) walk into
    another room until he calms
    down.		    
7. Demonstrate and practice these steps with him every day before and after school.    
8. Have him make a "step" chart of days and tiems and good behaviors.    
     


 

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