Approaches To Managing Children's Behavior Analysis

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In the article I’m reading called Approaches to Managing Children’s Behavior written By Sandra Crosser, Ph.D. talks about how children will break a rule and do it again even know they got caught. Some people think that if they punish their children every single time that they break a rule them they will stop breaking the rule. In the article it breaks down 5 aspects of the article which are punishment, external control, internal control, the guidance approach, and the authoritative style. It states by talking about how punishment does not work to control behavior. When most children get in trouble they wait till their parent walks away and cannot see them then they start to take a bad action again that they just got in trouble for. Some children …show more content…

The punishment gets more intense when the child keeps breaking a rule. Some children don’t fully understand why they shouldn’t break a rule that’s why I feel that some continue to keep breaking a rule after told not to. In schools today some teachers keep a track of the children behaviors. Some have a chart which is red, yellow, and green every child starts out on the green part but when some children start to break rules the teacher will move a clip up to yellow which means they have a warring and if they keep breaking the rule they will be moved up to red which means they are getting a phone call home. When most children get up to yellow they start to act good so that they can me moved back down to green. I have seen this when I use to help teach a 2nd and 3rd grade class and this does really work for some kids. For children internal control they start to monitor their self’s and you as parents and teachers you hope that the children can and will develop their own behavior. For children’s guidance approach is when the teachers help the children to understand the rules, why to not break the rules and what will be the outcome if a rule is broken. It’s hard for some of the teachers or parents to teach their children to not break a rule because all the child will do is continue to keep breaking the rules and that puts stress on the teachers and parents. In the authoritative style which is self-control for the children. It really god to teach children to have self-control. You start to let the children make decisions on different stuff when they are little starting a three years old. For example you should let the children to decide on what they want either a cookie or an apple. You can also have them at ages four and up to start letting them decide on what they want to wear for that day. By having the children do this at an early age they will start to

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