How does child modelling effect the childs psychology?
Ideally parents model ideal behaviour, the eldest sibling follows the youngest sibling imitates the next eldest, and so on. (Where a reasonable age gap is present ). If the parents are modeling their ideal behaviour the siblings follow. If the eldest sibling wants or is requested to change his attitude they firstly must understand what the desired behaviour is like through discussions with parents, or by parents modeling their ideal behaviour. If this happens and all goes well, and modeled behaviour is healthy behaviour it would help the child to decide or have some idea of what to do and how to act in new situations when there is no precedented model to reference. Ideally change will be successfully if caring (((praise for approximated ideal behaviour ))) occurs firstly, and with rapport with parents critiques of undesired behaviour occurs secondly. A token economy could be set up with star charts, smileys from parents and tangible rewards for good or approximate good behaviour occurs
