technique to control obnoxious behavior, and you will be
pleasantly surprised at how effective that simple technique is!- Parenting Job 2 involves encouraging good behavior.
Encouraging good behavior—such as picking up toys, going to
bed, being courteous, and doing homework—requires more
effort by parents (and more effort from kids to engage in the
encouraged behavior) than controlling difficult behavior does.
In this book, you will learn seven simple methods for
encouraging positive actions in your kids. - Parenting Job 3 is strengthening your relationship with your
children. Some parents merely need to be reminded of
Parenting Job 3; other parents have to work hard at
remembering to do it. Paying attention to the quality of your
relationship with your children will help you with Jobs 1 and 2,
and vice versa.
How do our three parenting jobs relate to the warm and demanding
parenting traits? As you may have guessed already, the tactic for Job
1, controlling obnoxious behavior, depends almost entirely on the
demanding parent role. There’s not much warm or fuzzy about it! Job
3, however, will rely almost entirely on the warm side of the
parenting equation. And finally, Job 2, encouraging good behavior,
will employ both warm and demanding strategies.
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