Child Behavior Problem?

As a result, parents may unintentionally use the method improperly, coming to the conclusion that time outs just don’t work. However, if you put proactive strategies in place first, you will find when you do need to use time outs for rare occurrences they will be much more effective. You will also automatically see a decrease in child behavior problems, such as aggression, temper tantrums and meltdowns in general just by applying the outlined concepts provided in the book.

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A piece of food can be considered a reinforcer (a desirable item, object, event, or stimulus), right? When you haven’t eaten in a really long time, a piece of food becomes a much more desirable item, right? In fact, at times you might be so hungry that you would do anything just to get a piece of food.

If you hadn’t been able to eat in a couple days you might even begin to behave irrationally by attacking another person just to get a piece of bread found on the ground.

Then the behavior of physically attacking another person (common child behavior problem), which resulted in getting food (very strong reinforcer at this point), would occur more frequently as a result of being strongly reinforced.

However, in another situation, suppose you had just gone to a buffet and eaten a few plates of food. Your stomach is extremely full, so you actually unbutton the top of your pants to get some breathing room.

Then you notice a piece of bread on the floor and another person is reaching down to pick it up. Do you think you would physically attack that person to get that piece of bread? I would hope not.

If we can eliminate the hunger (the establishing operation that alters the reinforcer's effectiveness in this specific example) in our children, metaphorically speaking, we finally have the opportunity to more easily decrease and eliminate child behavior problems.

Not to say there still won’t be some situations you will have to deal with, but it will be much easier to stop a child from attacking another person over a piece of bread after they have eaten from a buffet, then if they had been starving for two days now wouldn’t it?

Behavior is often used to obtain what that person considers to be an extremely valuable reinforcer. In the example above that reinforcer was food. However, if you decrease the value of the reinforcer, the person will be less likely to engage in that behavior.

This was indicated in the example above when the person had eaten from the buffet and the value of the bread was decreased. This is not to say there won’t still be additional work needed, but the uphill battle will become much more stable ground to do so.

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