Good-feeling communications (positive feedback, empathy, praise, interesting conversation, acknowledgment, attentive listening, affectionate remarks, smiles, gentle touch, treats, gifts, greetings and so on) give you the POWER to engage in necessary negative feedback and boundary-setting with your child. Correction and discipline techniques tend to WORSEN a child's behavior rather than improve it, when a parent is offering too few good-feeling communications. When a child or teen needs a lot of correction, first take a week or two to concentrate on raising the number of good-feeling communications with him or her and then offer small doses of guidance. You will be more effective.
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