Behaviour management is a style of parent/child interactions that focuses on a positive and pleasant approach. This approach will assist you in establishing interactions that will promote desirable behaviour. The methods presented are not something to be used occasionally. For them to be fully effective, you must apply strategies consistently across all areas of your child’s life – continually. Even though implementation can be difficult at first, eventually these techniques will become second nature to you.

Even if you’ve tried some of the techniques in the past, it is important to try them again; they may have been less consistent last time you tried. They may be taking awhile to be effective, but keep in mind the longer the behaviour has been evident, the longer it will take to change it. Behaviours can also change over time. New ones appear in the place of old. Those skills you learned in the past might be more applicable to what you find concerning today.

It is your job to focus on the behaviour you’d like to increase or decrease, the more you learn about behaviour management techniques, the more tools you’ll gather to help shape and promote the behaviour you’d like to see more often.