Use the Triple-P Method - Practice, Praise & Prize - to re-wire your child's brain for success. Would you like your child to use his words instead of his hands to get what he wants from his sibling? Don't just TELL him to use his words. Get him to PRACTICE using his words - this builds the first new wire in his brain. Once he has said the appropriate words (e.g. "Can I please have a turn now?"), use PRAISE ("I like the way you said that!"). Praise builds 50 new wires in the brain. Finally, offer a small reward - PRIZE - for behaving appropriately ("Since you used your words, I think we should all have some cookies and milk!"). A Prize builds 100 new wires. Repeat the process several times in order to build a super-highway of wires in the brain for the new, appropriate behavior. Triple-P: Practice, Praise, Reward - your magic tool for installing new behavioral patterns.
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