Emily Chan
If your child is experiencing behavioral issues, you might feel overwhelmed by it and at a loss on what to do.
Maybe your current strategies to get your kid to behave better are ineffective, and you’re at the end of your rope.
Here’s what you can do differently. Instead of using discipline techniques, like time-outs, which end up losing their benefits in the long run, you can encourage your child to behave in desirable ways.
Depending on what your child needs, there are specific roles you can adopt to bring a little more order to your household, and all of these roles are based on encouragement.
Encouragement can open the door to excellence, growth, and obedience. Below, there are several roles you can take on to encourage kids in whatever circumstance they may be in. You might find that your child responds better to a certain role, but all of these may need to occur at some point.
Coach
Coaches are responsible for providing guidance and instructing people on relevant skills. As a coach in a parent-child dynamic, you will need to help your child break down complex tasks into multiple steps so they can tackle them one at a time. If you simply tell a child to clean their room, they might not know where to begin.
A parent who coaches their child will walk them through the process, highlighting each component of the room that needs tidying up. For example, you might talk about making the bed first, then putting clothes back in dresser drawers, and finally, moving on to picking up toys from the floor.
Your child may already know how to do each of these chores separately, but the concept of cleaning their room may have been too broad for them to understand at first. Breaking down the task will allow your child to approach it with more success.
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