Techniques and tactics to educate your children

Being a parent can be less difficult if you have a handful of good strategies which can be used at times. We list some crucial approaches and tactics for you.

Give encouragement
Offering compliments to your kid is significant. For this reason do it regularly. For what and how do you compliment? And what is the danger of giving way too many compliments?

Give positive attention
If you give your child a lot of positive attention, he will be less likely to ask for attention in a negative way. How do you give your child positive attention?

Reward system
Rewarding usually works better than punishment. With a reward system, you can stimulate the positive behavior of your child. With small steps and small rewards, your child learns a new behavioral pattern. That often works very well.

Stimulate positive behavior
It is not always easy to encourage your child to behave well. If you talk to your child in a different way, you can remove part of his resistance.

Encourage your child to become independent
How can you stimulate the independence and self-reliance of your child?

Pamper: good or bad?
Pampering is fun: it makes your child happy (at least in the short term). With the occasional indulgence, you can encourage your child to show good behavior. But spoiling too much is not good. How can you use pampering well?

Ignore
Ignoring is a very effective strategy if your child shows unwanted behavior. But you have to do it consistently. And: ignoring is not suitable for all forms of undesirable behavior. How do you use to ignore?

Time-out
You set your child apart with a time-out. That way he can calm down or think about his serious undesirable behavior. A timeout only makes sense if you do not apply it too often; you can only use it in extreme cases.

Rewarding and punishing
A large part of the time you spend on bringing up your child is concerned with unlearning unwanted behavior and teaching desired behavior. You can do that in different ways. Punishment and rewarding are effective methods and are therefore among the tools of most parents. But how do you implement these measures properly?