DIY Behavior

Traveling with your kids can be stressful. With flight delays; long hours in the back seat; being told “no”; and even when there's so much going on in their environment, mixing these undesirable events with your kid’s tolerance can be a recipe for a loud and long tantrum. Laury T. Coffey published an article on Today.com about tips for keeping the peace with kids while traveling. In this episode,...

A huge part of effectively and positively changing your child’s behavior comes to your mindset as a parent. Logical thinking is super important regarding being realistic with effective change.  Last episode, rewarding behavior was the main topic. However, one caveat to keep in mind is knowing changing behavior comes with time.  Shaping is a behavior change procedure where one behavior is broken do...

Part 2 of the first “why your kid won’t listen to you” - this episode is about what you as a parent can do to teach your child to listen to you and follow your instructions rather than protesting and refusing.  Part one centered around knowing the importance of motivation and learning how to identify things that you could use to motivate your child to listen to your instructions more. If you haven...

We're all been there. High level of stress and anxiety with anticipating dropping your kid off for the first day of daycare. The anticipation is the worst part! This episode centers around a key strategy to help overcome your anxiety and fear of dropping your kid off for there 1st day of daycare to help you be productive while going back to work. After all, this is suppose to be a celebratory even...

The transition from summer break to school is looked forward to from parents because it gets the kids from out the house into a structured environment once again. However, most kids dread the onset of school as well as display some behaviors that communicates that they do not want to go to school. Parents end up dreading the transition because it becomes a hassle for both you and your child at dro...

1 way to get your kid to listen and follow instruction from you more has nothing to do with them and everything to do with how you're approaching the obstacle. Why aren't they listening and following instructions from you? Is it because they don't know how to do what you're asking from them? or is it because they aren't motivated? In this episode I discuss 1 way to increase your kid's compliance t...

Parenting tip that can not only solve a parenting obstacle with your child’s behavior, but will also change your mindset into a more proactive and problem solving parenting mindset. In this episode we focus on your purpose along your parenting journey as well as how to react when your child is experiencing behavior struggles.  Thanks for listening, share with another parent!

Once your kid has been taught to ask to go potty, remain dry for extended periods of time, and knows how to void into the toilet, you as the parent must take a different approach to ensure your kid keeps up with those skills. At this point, it's no longer an issue if they know how to do these behaviors, more so an issue to motivate your kid to remain dry and to continue asking and voiding into the...

First eat your dinner then your dessert! It can be as simple as that to get your kid to do their homework without screaming, fussing, and begging them to do it. The premack principle- first/then strategy- is a great behavior change strategy to get your kid to do their homework on a daily basis. Listen closely to the variables and caveats that makes the first/then strategy effective.

When your kid screams, whine, cries, or tantrums to ask for things instead to politely asking, you as the parent could be causing this response. Differential reinforcement is a great behavior strategy to not only decrease the problem behavior but to also increase the appropriate response. Listen closely to all teh variables that goes into place as to why your kid continues to scream, holler, cry t...