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Negotiation involves you and the child participating in behavior decision making. Changing from sole decision maker when your teen was young to negotiations can be difficult for you. But adolescent will resist outright decision...

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Compromise is the expedient acceptance of standards that are lower than desirable. Each person is a little satisfied and a little dissatisfied. Parents must learn to compromise. Most adolescent behaviors are temporary that may end...

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All parenting techniques that we have learned can be used on adolescents but how it should be used must be modified to suit them. The techniques must be applied with maturity and respect. Let...

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1. Adolescents are those between the ages of 10 and 19. The brain is not fully developed but developing unevenly. The 2 main brain developments are Sensation impulses and Decision making impulses. During initial...

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There is an assumption that Adolescents uniquely make bad choices and if we just tell them how to make better choices they will do so. Perenting some Adolescents can be challenging but others are...

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There are many forms of physical punishments. Spanking is the most familiar, but we also have slapping, kicking, punching. Spanking is an act of hitting, especially on the buttocks as a punishment for children....

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There are many forms of physical punishments. Spanking is the most familiar, but we also have slapping, kicking, punching. Spanking is an act of hitting, especially on the buttocks as a punishment for children....

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1. Decide on the behavior you want to decrease. For example, I want my child to stop insulting. 2. Decide on the positive behavior you will want replace the negative behavior. This is called positive...

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Research says punishment cannot eliminate behavior or cannot develop a behavior but if used in positive settings it can offer some helps. What we know about how we routinely use punishment is that it...

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Basics of Punishment Punishment is a very sensitive topic to discuss because of different personal and religious beliefs, especially when it comes to corporal punishment. Punishment is any consequence that follows a behavior and decreases or...

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