Positive Reinforcement
The concept of positive reinforcement is the most powerful and practical tool ever devised in the history of applied psychology. Positive reinforcement is defined precisely in keeping with how it works. Its definition is actually as straight forward and simple as it is counterintuitive (Cappa & Kahn, 2011). Positive reinforcement in my opinion can't fail to profile and maintain positive behavior and to replace negative or problem behavior. If parents don't harness this simple but powerful technique, it's very likely that a negative peer culture or some other influential source will.
Positive Reinforcement works because it gives children positive goals to work towards instead of only focusing on negative consequences to avoid. Positive reinforcement fulfills strong basic psychological needs of every child as well as setting a more positive and healthy tone for the parent, child relationships. I have many examples of positive reinforcement that I use with my children. Every person and every child is different; this is true by definition about my two children. My kids are 15 and 10. They are two totally different children. My 15 year is very carefree, athletic, and tends to care little about school; my 10 year old is very cautious of everything and think about what can happen if he does something, and has always done better in school and does not enjoy sports.
Report cards come home. My oldest son has C’s and my youngest son has all A’s. Both were very proud of themselves. For my oldest son C’s kept him on the football team, and earns him money. For my youngest it gives him more money than his brother and his name is in the local newspaper for honor roll that gets hung on our fridge next to Caleb’s athletic endeavors. Point being: My oldest son tries his best and school has never come easy to him and with my youngest son school is his strength. The positive reinforcement in this scenario is that for one child receiving high marks come easier; however, it does
Positive Reinforcement works because it gives children positive goals to work towards instead of only focusing on negative consequences to avoid. Positive reinforcement fulfills strong basic psychological needs of every child as well as setting a more positive and healthy tone for the parent, child relationships. I have many examples of positive reinforcement that I use with my children. Every person and every child is different; this is true by definition about my two children. My kids are 15 and 10. They are two totally different children. My 15 year is very carefree, athletic, and tends to care little about school; my 10 year old is very cautious of everything and think about what can happen if he does something, and has always done better in school and does not enjoy sports.
Report cards come home. My oldest son has C’s and my youngest son has all A’s. Both were very proud of themselves. For my oldest son C’s kept him on the football team, and earns him money. For my youngest it gives him more money than his brother and his name is in the local newspaper for honor roll that gets hung on our fridge next to Caleb’s athletic endeavors. Point being: My oldest son tries his best and school has never come easy to him and with my youngest son school is his strength. The positive reinforcement in this scenario is that for one child receiving high marks come easier; however, it does
References: Cappa, C., & Khan, S. M. (2011). Understanding Caregivers ' Attitudes towards Physical Punishment of Children: Evidence from 34 Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 35(12), 1009-1021. Ciccarelli, S., and J. White. Psychology. 3. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education Inc, Luman, M., Van Meel, C. S., Oosterlaan, J., & Geurts, H. M. (2012). Reward and Punishment Sensitivity in Children with ADHD: Validating the Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire for Children (SPSRQ-C). Journal Of Abnormal Child Psychology, 40(1), 145-157.