Inproving Your Child's Behavior

Sometimes when parents attempt to help their children improve their behavior, performance, work habits, or interpersonal skills, they use approaches that achieve just the opposite of what they had intended or, at best, seem to have no effect at all. While a parent might have intended to give helpful instruction by pointing out what her child was doing wrong, the child may have taken her words as criticism. It seems that some parents have gotten the mistaken idea that in order to get their kids to perform better, they first have to make them feel worse! Continue reading