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Are you dealing with a child that is aggressive? Fights? Is hyperactive or impulsive? Maybe the child you are working with simply will not listen or follow directions. Or, the child is angry or sad. No matter what the behavior, the first thing you need to remember is that:

All Behavior Has A Purpose!

How do you find out what the purpose of the behavior is? Chapter 1 of 'When Time-Out & Stickers Don't Work' helps you figure out why your child is acting the way he or she is.

Once you've identified the problem, then what? Chapter 2 of this book will help you understand the many factors related to problem behavior and how behavior patterns become set in the brain causing the child to automatically fall back into problematic behavior even when s/he has been taught the correct behavior.

Do you find that time-out is largely ineffective? Or, have you had problems keeping a child in time-out? Maybe you have tried using stickers or other rewards only to find that they do not motivate the child to correct his or her behavior. Or, you have taken privileges away but the child does not seem to care.

Find out WHY in this book.

Or, need more information? Read on!

Most parents, teachers, and child care providers don't realize that traditional behavior management strategies such as time-out & stickers work for the majority of the kids, but not all kids. In fact, as many as 20-25% of children do not respond well to these strategies.

Chapter 4 helps you target problem behavior and define a clear cut plan for correcting that behavior, while Chapter 5 contains hundreds of time-tested strategies that you can use to effectively change a child's problem behavior. I have included in Chapter 5 my own personal strategies that I use in my clinical practice each and every day and have effectively taught to hundreds of families and teachers across the nation. I call these my personal 'Bag of Tricks.'

I am a Pediatric Behavioral Specialist and Licensed Marital & Family Therapist with over 25 years experience working with families, schools, and professionals on correcting problem behavior in children. This book contains 250+ pages of helpful information and is everything you need to understand and correct behavior in children of all ages. 

Whether you are new at working with children or have been a parent or working in the field for years, this book is for you. I teach these strategies in workshops across the country, to new parents and 20 year old veteran teachers, and participants continue to be amazed that they did not know more about what this book offers! Here are some of the comments I received at the last few workshops I conducted for teachers and parents:

"I have been teaching for over 20 years and only came to this workshop because I needed continuing education credit. I brought tons of work to do to busy myself thinking I would not learn anything from your workshop. I never even opened my work! In fact, I had to move to the front so I would not miss a thing."

"You make understanding, and correcting problem behavior so easy! No more frustration! I don't even get angry anymore, now that you have explained why children act as they do and how I can get better results by not yelling!"

"Using a brain-based approach to understanding and correcting problem behavior really makes sense. Everyone needs to know this stuff." 

The key to correcting behavior is to understand why kids behave as they do and to take an approach to correcting the problem behavior that does not cause the child to want to take revenge or to act out in other ways.

Did you know that many children want and like to be in time-out because it gets them out of what they don't want to do or gives them attention? Some simply like to engage you in a battle or do not think that you have the authority to make them do your will. Still others, simple do not care!

Did you know that many children will sabotage their own success when put on a sticker or reward system? They will deliberately do something wrong that makes such a system ineffective. Some may act like they want to work towards a reward, only to fall short of their goal and to act out worse. Do you know why? This book explains why these children keep themselves from winning and also tells you what to do about it.

Did you know that most behavior falls into a "fight" or "flight" behavioral response mode?