Week 4

This weeks agenda was all about PRAISE. Effective ways to Praise and Encourage your child, and to bring out the best in your child. I found this week very helpful and when I got home me and my daughters make some Easter buns, and all the time we were making them I kept praising her. The difference it made was excellent. They were smiling, laughing, clapping hands, they were happy that i was praising them.
Here are a few notes i took during the lesson:

• Don't just praise perfection
• Physical contact can help to encourage/make a child feel special
• "use positive reinforces" (well done, brilliant, super)
• Be specific when using praise
• Avoid criticism/negative
• Use praise to encourage behaviours (patience)
• Don't take behaviours for granted
• Expressions-facial-smile-eye contact___Physical-cuddles-taps
• Stay positive when giving praises
• Keep things fun and enjoyable
• Praise small steps

Put some of the above into practice it will work if you want it to work it did for me.

Here are some notes about praising your child:

• Catch your child being good-don't save praise for perfect behaviour.
• Don't worry about spoiling your children with praise
• Increase praise for difficult children
• Model self-praise
• Give labeled and specific praise
• Make praise contingent on behaviour
• Praise with smiles, eye contact, and enthusiasm
• Give positive praise
• Praise immediately
• Give pats and hugs and kisses along with praise
• Use praise consistently
• Praise in front of other people

Choose 1 behaviour you would like to see more often PRAISE it every time they do, this will bring your child to do it more often.

Some Physical rewards

A pat on the ham or shoulder
A hug
Head rubbing
Squeezing the arm or wrist
Giving a kiss

This like this will make your child feel special and give them encouragement.