Parents: Get The Behavior You Want

Get The Behavior You Want From Your ChildThis course will present skills to parents that will improve their children’s behavior, reduce the parents’ frustration, and ultimately produce a well-adjusted child.  These skills are simple for any parent to both understand and implement.  They require no uncommon knowledge about child psychology or development.

This is not a course that purports to teach anyone how to be a parent, which is a role that encompasses much more than is addressed in these videos.  It is a course designed to teach parents dynamics and skills related to having a compliant and well-behaved child.

Each video addresses a specific issue or circumstance and outlines the appropriate behaviors and actions to use.



Introduction to Getting The Behavior You Want

This course will present skills to parents that will improve their children’s behavior, reduce the parents’ frustration, and ultimately produce a well-adjusted child.  These skills are simple for any parent to both understand and implement. ...

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Rule Governed Behavior and Compliance

This lesson introduces the concept of rule-governed behavior. It highlights the critical nature of compliance in the development of the child, and that compliance training forms the foundation of self-control, problem-solving, and...

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Behavior, Not Attitude

One of the ways that the parents’ job is simplified is to focus on what children do. What children do that is all that a parent can know with certainty; the rest is guesswork. Rather than guessing, parents can proceed with increased assurance...

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Why Not Attitude?

Why not focus on attitude? Because attitudes are ultimately unknowable, don’t need to change in any event, and will likely only change following a change in their behavior and the experience that change brings. When parents try to change what...

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The Nature of Problems

When a parent experiences a stubborn child behavior problem, they usually think of the problem as a matter of the child’s performance and often in psychological terms. Our simple yet elegant definition of the problem is the same thing over and...

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Skill #1: Targeting Behavior

Since change in behavior is our focus, Skill #1, Targeting Behavior, is presented. Parents learn to avoid unhelpful descriptions of problems and use verbs instead of adjectives when relating what their child is doing. Targeting the specific...

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