Positive Reinforcement I have three daughters ages: 9‚ 7‚ & 3 years old. I use positive reinforcement differently with my two older daughters than that of my youngest. My oldest daughter is in third grade and my middle daughter is in first grade. I often use positive reinforcement strategies on them to praise them for a good job on their school work. When they bring home a graded paper that they received an 100% on they are
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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
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willful defiance. It is a no-nonsense Christian approach of maintaining love and control in balance. Dr. Dobson also compares our current generation with those of the past. Present society has an aversion to specific forms of discipline (e.g.‚ spanking) preferring to accommodate and cater to their children’s every whim. Homes have become child centered‚ which has resulted in disrespect for authority‚ entitlement expectancy‚ grandiose sense of self-importance‚ and a lack of a moral compass. He
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The first barrier I have displayed was Egocentric memory. Egocentric memory is the natural tendency to “forget” evidence that does not support our thinking and to “remember” evidence that does (Paul‚ Elder‚ 2006‚ P.7). For example this happens a lot when other people tell me stories. I always tend you remember things in the story that pertains to me and if I’m interested in the story. Now for example‚ let say my boyfriend wanted to tell me a story about the time he almost rolled his car. So one day
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among the most controversial topics currently‚ and they cause serious problems for children in the United States. Child abuse essentially focuses on the child’s bad behaviors and gives the child emotional and physical harms. Forms of abuse include spanking‚ hitting‚ saying negative things and corporal punishment. In fact‚ parental discipline is a much more appropriate way of dealing with negative behavior than using abusive actions on the child. The line between parental discipline and child abuse
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research into the study. They themselves believe they hold the trump card of experience in the matter and believe that from their time as parents which included raising four children that they are certain spankings do not affect children in that way because their own children experienced spanking and they saw first-hand that it would cause their kids to behave better. Their logic however shows serious flaws that can be explained. Mom and Pop have a pet belief from their personal experience on this
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Sachi Shah Who’s Right? Me or Mom Gish Jen’s “Who’s Irish?” shows a cultural and generational gap between the narrator and her daughter. Each culture is different around the world‚ and poses some differences‚ yet are similar in many ways. People‚ around the world‚ live as the way they should according to their societies. What is the definition of family in this day and age? A group who are blood related. Family is a set of individuals who take care of each other‚ and live under one roof. Jen
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This is an informal essay giving readers an insight on my support system as a child. The things that helped me feel safe as a child. Resources in the neighborhood that helped me grow and blossom. Insight on why I may think the way I do. The focus is to analyze me so I can put aside anything that may hinder me as a Social Worker. The support system I had as a child would be my parents. Luckily I grew up in a two parent home as an only child. This boils my father over when I say‚ I am an only child
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From the first glance‚ these passages seem to be very clear that the Bible advocates corporal punishment. However‚ upon further examination‚ there are several flaws in Pastor Handy’s evidence. First is the fact that Pastor Handy only provides four verses in his sermon and that all of these verses are from the same book of the Bible. In order to make a sound judgment on the Bible’s stance on corporal punishment‚ more verses should be considered. Verses speaking about corporal punishment should be
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him to know he will probably get a spanking hard enough to make him cry of pain. The child awaits in fear as he counts down the minutes till his father arrives‚ knowing that the worst is yet to come. Spanking may be best described as corporal punishment. So what exactly is corporal punishment? Corporal punishment includes a number of physical actions to‚ "Inflict pain and discomfort‚ including pinching‚ pulling ears and hair‚ shaking‚ slapping smacking‚ spanking‚ swatting‚ hitting‚ kicking‚ punching
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