No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems
&gt; Punishment might make you feel better, but it won’t change the kid’s behavior. Instead, he advocates for a radical technique in which parents positively reinforce the behavior they do want to see until the negative behavior eventually goes away.<p>We adopted a puppy a little more than a year ago and this was the exact advice we were given for how to train her. Puppies and little kids are remarkably similar, and the key to training a dog is not to &quot;punish&quot; them when they do something wrong (they&#x27;ll just get scared of you), but rather to reinforce the good behaviors, reward them when they listen, and essentially just ignore them when they don&#x27;t.<p>In practice, after a year, this technique has worked great. Our puppy listens to us, respects us, and despite being absolutely crazy, will drop everything if she hears us call her. We didn&#x27;t even need to train her to avoid eating the baby&#x27;s toys since I think she understood that she received more praise when playing with &quot;her&quot; toys.<p>Our baby is only six months old so we&#x27;ll have to report back in a decade as to whether this approach works well with kids too. :)