Set up your child and yourself for success and learn how discipline can be more about teaching than punishment, and more positive than negative for parents and children. Time- and research-tested Common Sense Parenting® skills have been adapted to meet the needs of parents and caregivers of young children ages 2-5. In this second edition, parents are given enhanced parenting skills with updated parent steps and clearer explanations for how and why to use these steps with children: Set reasonable expectations based on your child’s age, development, and abilities.Give your child the nurturing, love, and praise he or she needs to thrive.Use a parent’s version of “show and tell” to both prevent problems and correct misbehavior.Create plans for staying calm – for you and your child. Parents will benefit from Boys Town’s decades of experience in working with kids to help moms, dads and other caregivers enhance their child-rearing skills and develop a calm, skill-focused approach to discipline.

Tantrums in the grocery store aisle. Arguments over following instructions. Verbal and physical tiffs with playmates. What parent hasn't experienced these troublesome events with their children? Fortunately, Boys Town has an answer for these and many other parenting challenges. Our time- and research-tested Common Sense Parenting® skills, adapted to meet the needs of parents of young children, focus on making discipline more about teaching than punishment while strengthening family relationships. In this second edition of Common Sense Parenting of Toddlers and Preschoolers, parents will benefit from Boys Town's decades of experience in working with kids and helping moms, dads, and other caregivers enhance their child-rearing skills. With updated parenting strategies and clear explanations for how and why they should be used to effectively change children's behavior for the better, this book will become your go-to guide for developing a calmer, skill-focused parenting approach. Building a positive relationship with your child when he or she is young is much easier when you have the right parenting tools. Common Sense Parenting provides those practical, easy-to-use tools and so much more! Learn how to: Set reasonable expectations for behavior based on your child's age, developmental level, and abilities. Nurture your child through love and praise so he or she can thrive. Use a parent's version of "Show and Tell" to prevent problems and correct misbehavior. Create plans that can help you and your child stay calm in even the most turbulent situations. Setup your child and yourself for success with Common Sense Parenting of Toddlers and Preschoolers! Book jacket.

Angry, aggressive, or violent youth threaten the well-being of themselves, other children, and caregivers in any setting. They may need medicztion and therapy to treat their problems, but they also must learn how to control negative thoughts and emotions without turning to aggressive behaviour. Professionals will learn how to build good relationships with youth and teach them pro-social behaviour. Also offered are sample treatment plans to address both proactive and reactive aggression in youth and guidelines on how to promote a safe environment for the children in your care. Included is a social skills chart that can be used as an easy reference guide by caregivers as they teach new skills to replace old aggressive behaviours. The chart shows which skills work best with specific types of behaviours.

This book invites teens to examine their lives and relationships within a religious context. It begins by helping you define what physical, emotional, spiritual, and sexual boundaries are. Stories of other teens illustrate how personal space and feelings can be either respected or violated in relationships with others. The book's journal format encourages you to reflect on and record feelings about your own relationships. Do people respect your boundaries? Has anyone ever made you feel uncomfortable in some way? Have you ever felt manipulated, intimidated, or mistreated by someone you regarded as a friend? How can you get a friendship that has gone wrong back on track? Use Boundaries: A Guide for Teens to help assess your relationships with family, friends, classmates, and God. Learn how to build close and satisfying friendships while guarding against being used or abused by others. Learn what it takes for you to be a good friend in return.

Social skills include: expressing empathy, going to an assembly, accepting defeat or loss, using anger-control strategies, responding to inappropriate talk/touch, completing homework, being prepared for class, accepting winning appropriately, and more.

This practical guide to study skills instruction offers 29 complete lesson plans that can help you teach your students how to learn and improve their academic performance. Lessons cover the key strategies of note taking, summarizing, using research tools (including the Internet), and test taking. They incorporate full participation by students and continuous checking for understanding by the teacher which help students also improve their listening skills.

Widely regarded as the authoritative work on the principles and practice of applied behavior analysis (ABA), this indispensable volume is now in a revised and expanded second edition. Leading experts present evidence-based procedures for supporting positive behaviors and reducing problem behaviors with children and adults in diverse contexts. Chapters delve into applications in education, autism treatment, addictions, behavioral pediatrics, and other areas. Covering everything from behavioral assessment and measurement to the design and implementation of individualized interventions, the Handbook is a complete reference and training tool for ABA practitioners and students. New to This Edition *Incorporates key advances in research, theory, and clinical practice. *Chapters on additional applications: school consultation, pediatric feeding disorders, and telehealth services. *Chapters on quantitative analysis of behavior (matching and behavioral momentum theory) and behavioral economics. *Updated discussions of professional issues, ABA certification, and technology tools.