A Message From Your PAWS School Psychologist Terry

Message from Terry Weksel, your P.A.W.S. School Psychologist

 

Dear Families:

 

This morning, I found in my inbox a video about how relationship building with children and parenting/behavior management are connected.  Three important points are covered:  1) the importance of child-directed play; 2) labeled praise; and 3) active ignoring.   Here is the link:  

 

Child Directed Play, Praise, and Active Ignoring

 

The first seven and a half minutes provide the strategies for Child Directed Play.

The next two minutes explains “labeled praise.”

The final six minutes cover the topic of active ignoring, a very useful strategy to avoid inadvertently reinforcing unexpected behavior.

 

If you can practice the Child Directed Play ideas first, the other two strategies build nicely onto them! I hope you’ll find this useful.

 

Stay well, everyone.  Miss you all.

Terry 

 

P.A.W.S. Early Childhood School Psychologist