Welcome parents! Thanks for visiting www.BehaviorAdvisor.com While the site is designed primarily for teachers, the strategies found on it can easily be adapted to the home setting. On this page you'll find a number of items that are directly related to the parenting of kids who present behavioral challenges. I hope that we can help make the homefront a little better for you.
Click on the items of interest to you in order to read about them.
What to do when the school or psychologist tells you that your child has an emotional and/or behavior disorder |
| Your rights when the school wants to assess (test) your child |
| Ideas for making home a more positive place for you and your kids |
| One parent's story about how she found out that positive ways motivate kids better than giving penalties |
| How to set up a home behavior management system based on a "checking/savings account" |
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Great Books For Parents Of Kids Who Need To Learn To Make Better Behavior Choices
This classic book, as useful today as when it was first published in the early 1980's provides parents with "Nice ways" to gain compliance from their children. Along with easy-to-read text are cartoons showing the typical ineffective phrasing used by parents are followed by those showing more effective ways of saying things. In my mind, this is the best parenting book on the market when it comes to how WE can change our ways to help our kids behave better.
Assertive Discipline for Parents provides a system that helps parents to be in-charge, while also being compassionate and supportive. It's especially good for parents who have problems "standing up" to their children, but also great for those parents who find themselves yelling and hitting/spanking when they get frustrated. The system gives parents things to say and do that are firm, but loving. Kids view the system as being fair and reasonable.
A Book For Kids Who Need To Make Better Behavior Choices
It's the only book written FOR kids who need to learn how to make better choices when it comes to thier actions. It's written on a 4th grade reading level, but you can read it with youngsters who don't yet read at that level. Cartoons and sensitive writing help to motivate kids to try the new ways.
| Information on Dr. Mac's book that you can use to help your child make better choices about behavior. |
| Read a parent's review of Dr. Mac's Book |
Other Web Sites on Parenting Youngsters with Behavioral Challenges
http://cecp.air.org/familybriefs/docs/Choice_at_home.pdf This page talks about giving choices to youngsters to help them become more self-managed and less defiant.
http://www.parenting.org/archive/precious/education/2001-02/Sep02_bad_behavior.asp
This page discusses inappropriate behavior in preschool.
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