Let's Make a Contract- A Positive Way to Change Your Child's Behavior by Jill C. Dardig
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Web ID: 168368512 years ago
from Tucson, AZ
Great read, highly recommended
The main contribution of the science of behavior is that behavior is shaped by the hundreds of responses that an individual receives everyday of their life. Let’s make a contract provides a clear road map and easy to use examples to help parents use the powerful tools of our field to impact their child's behavior every day. This book will help parents establish positive relationships and the responsible, and respectful behaviors that will allow their children to live happy and productive lives.
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2 years ago
from Worthington, Ohio
A Mother and a Teacher Must-Read!
In our daily lives, we experience a spectrum of rewards—from redeeming “stars” at an international coffee chain to cashing in points on a Disney card. Why wouldn’t we want to reward children to shape positive behavior? In their book, Let’s Make a Contract, Drs. Jill C. Dardig and William L. Heward clearly define what a contract is, its parts, and how it can help resolve problems and achieve goals. This text is well-structured providing relevant examples, as well as sample contract forms for a range of ages and abilities. It also explicitly describes how to plan for clarity of the contract and its success. Finally, it lists common rewards, none more important than a parent’s willingness to provide a positive consequence rather than a punitive one. The cumulative effect of this approach can, quite literally, change the world. As a mother and an Early Childhood Intervention Specialist, I highly recommend this book.
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2 years ago
from Alabama
Excellent Book for Parents
If you are in the market for very simple, easy, and effective parenting strategies this is the book for you. Dardig and Heward's book will help you to establish clear rules and expectations as well as self-control with a positive and proactive approach to help any parent. Not only are the stories and materials great, but they are also backed by years of solid research showing their effectiveness. This is a must-have book for any parent. The book will also be great for school counselors, educators, or really anyone who works with kids!
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2 years ago
from São Paulo, Brasil
Behavior Change Made Easy
One of the most user-friendly and engaging "how-to" books in simple behavior contracting for life changing strategies out there. In addition to being a terrific tool for parents, this is also an excellent and easy to follow tool to be used by teachers in addressing behavior in the classroom.
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2 years ago
from Massachusetts
An excellent resource for parents!!
Practical and without unnecessary jargon, Let’s Make a Contract focuses on building positive relationships between children and their parents, rather than simply trying to stop bad behavior or build compliance. The clarity of the writing and the use of common examples of stressors in family life make this book a wonderful resource. I highly recommend this book to parents, educators, and anyone who wants to improve the quality of relationships among family members.
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2 years ago
from Columbus, OH
Let's Make a Contract: A Positive Way to Change
Drs. Jill Dardig and Bill Heward’s book, Let’s Make a Contract: A Positive Way to Change your Child’s Behavior (2022) provides parents, foster parents, grandparents—indeed any child-care provider—with a workable tool to address a myriad of nagging and persistent child behaviors. Using a series of vignettes based on diverse parent-child interactions, Dardig and Heward show parents how to design and implement a positive approach for selecting tasks to be completed by the child, rewards to be earned when tasks are accomplished, a recording system to enhance accountability for all parties, and a method to adjust and/or troubleshoot the entire process if circumstances dictate modifications. Aside from the technical information that the book provides, Let’s Make a Contract offers several key features that add to its appeal. For instance, the colorful illustrations, examples, and format styles are first rate. Also, the book features attractive and stand-alone, icon-highlighted Text Boxes, FAQs, Next Steps, and Let’s Talk sections that add flavor and nuance to the narrative. The book also contains a helpful glossary of terms, reading resources, and references. Contract forms in English and several other languages can be downloaded for free at the book’s companion website—contractingwithkids.com A final point: it should not escape the reader’s attention that this book provides a non-punitive way to address issues that many parents face raising a child. Dardig and Heward remind readers that, in the end, positive approaches will best serve the family’s needs, and that rewards do not mean monetary payouts. When parents/child-care providers change their own behavior by proposing and adopting a contracting system, the interactive and communicative process that unfolds bodes well for the future of the family dynamic. When the parent repeatedly catches the child being good, and the child experiences a valued reward, good things happen. Dardig and Heward’s Let’s Make a Contract is a practical vehicle to set the occasion for this outcome. I highly recommend this book.
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2 years ago
from London, UK
Highly Recommend!!!
It is said “it takes a village to raise a child”, which can be very true from many perspectives. The main one is that any child learns from a number of different people in a number of different environments. The most significant should be their home, interacting with their parents. Nowadays, all live very busy lives and keeping consistency at home has become a real struggle for most parents. In addition to school-time, creating productive learning opportunities for their children at home may become a challenging task, which unavoidably may lead to frequent arguments. Making contracts has been identified in the literature as the possible solution! This is where this new book by Dardig and Heward should be considered as an invaluable source for every family!! It is not only that it has been written in such a parent-friendly way, fully illustrated and translated in many languages... Most importantly, it provides “how-to text”, equipping each family with a tool that will contribute to make “learning” an enjoyable everyday task as it should be!! I could not recommend it more...
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2 years ago
from Sao Paulo
Great read! Highly recommended.
This is an excellent resource and I highly recommend it to both professionals in the field and also to parents. The authors explain scientific approaches using an easy to understand language that we all can benefit.
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