Positive Discipline Parenting Tool - TAKE TIME FOR TRAINING/ TOME TIEMPO PARA ENTRENAR

Training is an essential part of teaching children life skills. We often ask our children to clean their rooms (for example) and forget that their version of clean and our version of clean are indeed very different. The same thing is true with setting the table, organizing their closets or putting their toys away. We expect them to know how we want things done, without ever taking the time to teach them.

Training is also an important first step in managing children’s behaviors. If your child doesn’t know how to tie his shoes, for example, he might refuse to do it – simply because he does not know how to do it. The solution is simple, teach him how.

A huge part of training is understanding that learning any skill requires a 4 step process: 
1 - Explain the task as you do it, while your child watches.

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