What Is Positive Reinforcement Parenting?
I’ll cut straight to the chase: Positive reinforcement is a modern, popular discipline technique aimed at bringing our kids’ behavioral problems under quick control and getting our kids to do the things we want. The method of positive reinforcement parenting is praising your kids when they do well (behave) and ignore the things they do wrong (when they misbehave). The philosophy of positive reinforcement parenting is that praise will ‘train’ your kids to do ‘good’ things more often and ‘bad’ things less often. So, what’s wrong with this picture? Surely a home with well-behaved kids that are happy to please their parents are every parent’s dream, right? What Do You Actually Want? A Carrot Craving Blinkered Donkey? Sorry, I can be provocative but I got your attention, didn’t I? Despite the rude and unflattering mental image in the above headline, I actually believe that positive reinforcement parenting advocates mean well, I really do! I do believe that positive reinforcement advocates t
