4 - 2009 - Teaching Self-Government

Sneaky Six Year Old

1 Comment / All, Children (4-10), Relationships, Using TSG Skills / Nicholeen Peck

…my 6 year old is up to his old tricks. He

LOVED following instructions when I first started concentrating on this.

But, today, he became his regular difficult self. He hasn’t been

following instructions and when I tell him he’s earned a chore, he won’t

do the chore. And when I try the Rule of 3, he’ll calm down and then

still won’t follow through with his chores.

He has tried to solicit help from me (while I’m trying to make dinner for him)–I told him I’d like to

help him, but I have to make dinner right now. Then, he just starts goofing off with the r

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This comment is definately realavent to the previous post. This was a great response. I couldn’t have said it better myself!

One thing Nicholeen didn’t mention was that this mom should try hard to find the positives in your son. It sounds like she can only think of negatives associated with her son right now. Of course that is part of teaching self-government, praising at a rate of 5 or 6 to 1 criticism.

I can totally relate because I do have a child that drives me crazy and I tend to focus on the negatives rather than the positives.

April 14, 2009

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