Fill Your Toolbox: Parenting Tricks Edition

Parenting can be quite the challenge! Here are 3 “tricks” to help to de-escalate behavior in children

• Tell your kids what you would like them to be doing instead of what you don’t want them to do

• Try to only use the word NO for safety and situations when you need to get their attention quickly

• Ignore attention getting behaviors as much as you can. Attending to it only reinforces the behavior