KidsMakingChange.comsm is a Revolutionary Site Promoting Positive Reinforcement for Children
Kidsmakingchange.com's Positive Reinforcement Community is designed to help parents, and any person who works with kids, affect positive change in children and their relationships with them.
Leading experts, supported by a vast quantity of research, studies and parents, recommend using positive reinforcement to change behavior in children. One of the most supported and successful methods is the use of a reward based incentive system, sometimes called a “token economy”.
We are counselors, parents, and most of all.... REAL PEOPLE! Even though we had knowledge and skills, we found it hard to implement a fully functioning positive reinforcement program for kids and maintain consistency in REAL LIFE! It is well known that consistency is the key to effective change. KidsMakingChange.com makes positive reinforcement possible with REAL SOLUTIONS!
Q: What is Positive reinforcement?
A: Positive Reinforcement is “catching” a kid doing something you want them to do and rewarding it. The child gets attention and reward as positive reinforcement for doing the right thing and will focus on repeating that behavior
Q: Why does Positive Reinforcement work?
A: Positive Reinforcement works because it gives children positive goals to work towards instead of only focusing on negative consequences to avoid. Positive reinforcement fulfills strong basic psychological needs of every child as well as setting a more positive and healthy tone for the caregiver-child relationship.
KidsMakingChange.com Can Help
If positive reinforcement works so well, why don't more parents and people who work with kids use it?
Let’s be realistic… as parents who use reward systems for positive reinforcement ourselves, here is where it got hard. We had to:
- Buy the books on Positive Reinforcement for children ($$$)
- Find time to Read the books on Positive Reinforcement (Tick-Tock)
- Buy the materials, (trips to store)
- Create all of the charts (More Time)
- Come up with all the rules … back to the books (Even More Time)
- Implement it and hope you are doing it right
- Keep track of the chart and how the kids are doing
So now you have spent the money, invested the time and realize that You are the positive reinforcement system. All runs smoothly until you lose track of points the kids earned because of the 50,000 other things you have to keep track of.
IT’S HARD WORK when every aspect of the positive reinforcement system is your job and responsibility.
The worst part is .. if you don’t stay consistent and remember everything, and follow through EVERY TIME, the reward system loses it’s value and behaviors may return and then you are back to square one.
A Support System for Positive Reinforcement
As counselors, we have advocated for a token economy for clients. Unfortunately, we knew that it wouldn't be easy based on our own experience! We finally put our heads together to create a positive reinforcement community that helps our parents and caregivers
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Definitions:
Main Entry: positive reinforcement
Part of Speech: n
Definition: the offering of desirable effects or consequences for a behavior with the intention of increasing the chance of that behavior being repeated in the future
Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7)
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Reference:
Reinforcement. (2007, August 6). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:36, August 9, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reinforcement&oldid=149626420
Positive Reinforcement. (n.d.). Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7). Retrieved August 09, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Positive Reinforcement
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