Redirecting a Child's Behavior

Your school-aged child earns time to play a favorite video game when homework is completed without arguing.

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Punishment

Your teenager studies hard all semester and receives an A for a challenging subject. You take your teen out for dinner and a movie, or provide funds for a special date night.

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Punishment

Your child has been misbehaving on the bus every day on the way to school. You decide to ride with him and when friends ask why, he must tell them it is because he has been misbehaving or you tell them. He decides to behave, especially when you tell him next time he will sit on your lap!

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Punishment

Your school-aged child comes home using language you consider to be unacceptable. You have them write 100 sentences saying they will not use such language again.

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Punishment

Your teenager loses all cellphone and computer privileges when homework is not completed.

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Punishment