| Parenting young children can be one of the toughest | | | | that the child will model the parent's behavior. This |
| jobs you will ever do. Anyone who has ever dragged | | | | places the ownness for creating and, therefore, for |
| a screaming out-of-control child from a department | | | | changing our child's behavior squarely on us, the |
| store will agree. It is all at once challenging, stressful | | | | parents. |
| and overwhelming. When kids start to exhibit behaviors | | | | Most parents' strategy for dealing with their young |
| that parents can't correct or even cope with, | | | | child's behavior is to push back against the behavior. |
| households and families can fall apart. | | | | They get mad to show they do not approve, hoping |
| Everyone struggles with the terrible twos and temper | | | | that a stern voice will stop the behavior. Of course this |
| tantrums, but it only gets tougher from there. Some | | | | provides no real incentive or method for affecting a |
| children are grand manipulators and other lie. Some of | | | | behavioral change. Since parents aren't behaviorists, |
| them as such picky eaters, we offer any food the | | | | almost all parents benefit from the advice of experts |
| child will eat just so they get some nourishment. Some | | | | and the support of knowledgeable resources in |
| of the greatest issues of parenting young children | | | | parenting their young children. |
| surround discipline, conflict resolution and boundaries. | | | | The first step is to learn the 100 parenting mistakes |
| And even young kids can have issues with peer | | | | you are probably making every day and how to |
| pressure and anger management. | | | | prevent them from affecting your child. You can |
| But just because we are parents, doesn't mean we | | | | change your child's behavior by changing the way you |
| know how to parent. As much as we hate to admit it, | | | | parent your young child. |
| many child development problems and destructive | | | | There is a way to do it without yelling and losing |
| behaviors in children are the result of parental behavior. | | | | control! |
| Albert Bandura's theory of modeling essentially states | | | | |