Today we are going to discuss the importance of ignoring some of your child’s behaviors.
Many times our children do a lot of things that are not dangerous and they are not abusive. These behaviors are just kind of a nuisance. They are the type of behaviors that are intended to get our attention.
Children really want our attention.
These behaviors can be very annoying. You do not have to address everything your child does though. You do not need to take action and respond to everything they do to get your attention.
A lot of times the best approach is just to ignore behaviors that are bothering you and are just annoying behaviors. When you do this enough, the behaviors do go away.
The important thing to remember is that these are attention getting behaviors. You have to be consistent and ignore them if you so choose that path.
What will happen if you do not ignore these annoying behaviors?
What will happen if you intermittently pay attention to them?
Well, what you are doing is a thing in psychology called intermittent reinforcement. This is a strong way of encouraging the behavior to go on for a very long time.
So if there is something your child does on a continual basis that bothers you, it is a nuisance and not dangerous or abusive, you can choose to ignore it. You must be consistent and make sure that you always ignore it, no matter what happens.
If you do this then the behavior will go away.
This, by the way, is a very good way of taking care of tantrums. When a child has a tantrum, it is sometimes used as a behavior getting technique. If you ignore the tantrums they will eventually go away.
Yes, I agree with you. Parenting kids means to educate kids in the way you believe, which needs principles. To love unconditionally does not mean whatever kids want.