Dealing With Young Children Tips

• Language is a powerful tool and there are a bunch of tactics you need to learn to create the outcomes you want. Here’s a specific tip: Use positive language instead of negative language.
• If you want to have any chance at all of influencing your child’s behaviour, you MUST have rapport first. Rapport simply means having an emotional connection to another person. 

• You can learn LOTS of ways to create this crucial emotional bridge before you change a child’s behaviour.
• We tend to overuse the word “No” when we talk to our kids. You remember the story of the boy who cried wolf, right? The little shepherd boy was bored while watching the sheep so he decided to cry wolf and make the villagers come running. Before long, they stopped responding to his false cries. When a parent cries “No” at every little thing, kids stop listening. The parent’s cries fade into the background.
• You can have multiple ways to get what you want without screaming “NO” at your child – and it simply works better!
• Behaviour is driven by emotion, not Logic. This is fundamental to everything.
• Behaviour, for any person of any age, is determined by their emotional state.
• People act from their emotions, and they later justify their actions with logic.
• But small kids don’t have the ability to use logic, so they act purely from emotion.