One More Thought About Attention Seeking Behaviors

Pay close attention to which of your child's behaviors you are giving attention to because those are the behaviors that you are reinforcing. We are all guilty of giving negative attention, and lots of it, to those behaviors that drive us crazy. This attention ensures that these behaviors will occur more and more often. Exactly the opposite effect that we want. It is not to late to start paying attention to the good behaviors and try to ignore those unwanted behaviors as long as they do not put your child in danger. Understand that there will be an increase in the unwanted behavior when you begin ignoring it. Children will start by testing us, not believing that this behavior will not get them the attention that they are seeking anymore. Stay strong and keep on this path, this behavior will go away as soon as your child realizes that they will no longer get attention for it.