Have you ever said to your child, “You can’t have dessert unless you finish your dinner”? Or maybe something similar along those lines? There’s a name for that particular strategy: The Premack Principle. The Premack Principle states that high probability behaviors can be used to reinforce low probability behaviors. What does this mean? It means […]
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The Power of Talking-it-Through
My daughter is 3 now. Which means we’re handling a whole host of new scenarios and challenges… and the term ‘threenager’ often floats though my head. But really, she’s just continuing to become her own person, discovering herself and her personality, experimenting with things she likes, doesn’t like, and trying very hard to be more […]