Help Kids Overcome Behavior Problems
It’s Not Just About Behaving…It’s About Getting Tasks Completed
Kids with dyslexia will often avoid reading at all costs. Some will melt down and throw fits when it’s time to do schoolwork. Others might slip away and hide. And yet others will retreat inside themselves, quietly refusing to do what was asked.
Perhaps your child has tantrums or just can’t seem to follow simple directions. Maybe there’s no real reason for outbursts…
If your child is struggling to pay attention, fighting you on homework, or having real or serious behavior problems, then the Bravo! Behavior Booster can help.
This FREE easy to use system is a behavior blueprint that will help your child achieve reading, academic, or behavioral success.
Without breaking the bank.
Without losing your mind.
A tantrum is a request for help…in a loud way!
It’s common for kids to act out, especially those with dyslexia. That’s because children with dyslexia are extremely smart. The frustration of not being able to perform well takes a toll. It’s like knowing you can count to one hundred, but when you go to do it, only a few numbers come out of your mouth. Eventually, you might act up as well!
It’s important to keep in mind that when your child acts out or misbehaves, there’s usually a reason for it.
Most of the time, Kids want to do well; they want to please. They enjoy your praise. They revel in the teacher’s kind words. They can’t wait to get awards and ribbons. When a paper comes back with an excellent…or even passing score, pride shows on their faces.
Tantrums and Fits are a Child’s Way of Asking for Help
But long days at school can wear kids with dyslexia and other learning issues down. Too many bad grades or lectures from teachers wear them thin. Even kids without learning issues can have meltdowns when life seems overwhelming.
When your child has a meltdown, it’s really a form of communication. Your child is letting you know something’s wrong.
A Stall in the Positive Behavior Cycle
Sometimes, children with behavior issues are labeled as having ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder). Children with ODD have a more difficult time attending to tasks because of troubling behaviors.
But remember…kids really do want to do well. But something happens along the way that stalls the positive behavior cycle. Simply put, a positive behavior cycle is a series of events where most behaviors reveal happy or positive emotions. Your child can have a behavior cycle alone, with you, or with a peer. Groups of children can engage in behavior cycles.
A Positive Behavior Cycle Makes a Huge Difference in Behavior and Task Output
When the behavior cycle is positive, most of the behaviors are positive and evoke positive or happy emotions and behaviors.
The problem arises when the behavior cycle is negative. If you and your child are on a negative behavior cycle, it can feel like the world’s gone mad!
We’ve already established that kids truly do want to do well, but too many events can happen that send them into a negative behavior cycle. When someone else is included, emotions intensify.
That’s when the tantrums pop up, when the retreating might start. It’s when your child might start fighting and arguing with siblings or pick fights with kids at school. Authorities might be disrespected. Homework pages are hidden or never finished. Tears well up. Friends go by the wayside. Screaming fits erupt…your child yells at you, at anyone in their path.
But…as bad as all this sounds, keep in mind that these are all ways of asking for help.
The Negative Behavior Cycle
When children act out, it’s usually because they feel overwhelmed, anxious, upset, angry, or confused. Normally, kids with dyslexia have a strong sense of fairness as well. If something seems unfair, if the scales are tipped in what they perceive as the wrong direction, they can get extremely upset. This leads to meltdowns!
Perhaps your child tried to tell you or someone else about the negative feelings, but something got in the way. An interruption popped up. That means the feelings weren’t processed, they churned inside your child, waiting for a way to erupt.
Most of the time, though, the problem arises when your child wasn’t able to find the proper words to explain the tumultuous storm of feelings to you…in a way that you could understand.
Sometimes They Simply Don’t Have the Right Words…
Often, these kids simply don’t have the vocabulary to tell you what’s going on! The words simply aren’t there, so how could they use them to explain to you how they feel?
Another problem arises when kids can’t label exactly what’s bothering them. Once again, since the feelings aren’t processed, they roil in your child’s body, waiting for a way to find release.
All too often, that release is negative.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, children might have ODD if they exhibit signs of anger, argue in front of adults, or act spiteful. In addition, these children might become annoyed easily. These are the kids who appear extra sensitive.
Turning a Negative Behavior Cycle into a Positive One
We’ve all experienced negative emotions and the storm of feelings that can erupt from them. Most of the time, though, even children are able to organize these feelings, process them, express them, let them out, and then let them go.
But when your child is on a negative behavior cycle – whether alone, with you, or with someone else – you might need help. You might have tried everything in your power to fix the problem, but nothing has worked.
That’s because you need a road map of sorts, a way to help you and your child jump off the negative behavior cycle and hop onto a positive one!
Once that happens, homework can be done without tantrums and tears. Your child stops getting in trouble at school. Reading scores rise because your child is able to focus and attend to what the teacher is saying. Your home will be more peaceful because arguments lessen, whether with you or with siblings.
When your child jumps onto a positive behavior cycle, it not only helps your child shine…it turns your whole family around!
Enter the Bravo! Behavior Booster
If your child’s been on a negative behavior cycle for a while, it might feel like you’ll never find a solution, that you’ll live the rest of your lives with tantrums or retreating. With homework fits and teachers calling. Of poor report cards and sibling arguments.
The Solution is Simple.
But when you’re in the middle of it, you feel overwhelmed yourself.
All too often, it’s because you’re tangled emotionally with your child. You’re too close to the problem. Without knowing it, you jumped onto that negative behavior cycle.
But the answer’s easy; the answer’s quick.
Behavior Problems are More Common than You Think
If you’ve been feeling like you’re an island, floating around all alone among an ocean of perfect parents and perfect children, then take a breath. Sit back and relax, because the solution is here.
The Bravo! Behavior Booster is the blueprint you’ve been searching for. The simple solution to help you get your child off that negative behavior cycle and hopping onto a positive one. In a matter of days, you can start seeing your child’s behaviors improve, whether it’s simply completing a homework assignment or something more problematic, like arguing with the teacher.
Right from the start, the Bravo! Behavior Booster will show you how to set up a simple task sheet. This task sheet can be for any behavior, whether positive or negative. Riding a bicycle. Turning in an assignment. Turning off video games. Getting a better math score. Not arguing with a sibling.
If You Can Think of a Behavior, it Can be Changed.
Quickly and easily. And the start of it all is with the Bravo! Behavior Booster’s easy to use task sheets.
These task sheets help you:
- pinpoint your child’s specific behaviors that are getting in the way of success
- help you and your child work together to choose tasks that can be accomplished with ease
- help your child’s behavior be a positive impact instead of a negative one
- guide your child to easy behavior successes one task at a time
- start with one easy task your child can succeed with and from there move to two tasks, then three, etc.
- build a framework of easy behavior successes, one task at a time
- find quality time rewards that speak to your child’s way of seeing things – not anyone else’s
- use tangible item rewards to reinforce your child’s good behavior
- teach you how to communicate in a positive way with your child
- show you and your child how to jump off the negative behavior cycle
If your child is struggling with behavior issues – whether academic or strictly behavioral, then all you have to do is download Bravo! Reading’s FREE Behavior Booster, and you’re on your way to helping your child gain independence, happiness, and pride at better behavior.
Achievable Tasks Equate to Better Behavior
Once a task is chosen and recorded on the task sheet, it’s “go” time! This simply means that you give your child the opportunity to complete the task.
From there, either your child finishes the task, or not…
There are times when tasks aren’t completed and the reward isn’t given. That’s perfectly fine and a great opportunity for learning. In life, we don’t complete every task; we don’t always get the reward.
Making a Task Reachable Makes all the Difference!
But since the task you chose for your child was achievable, it means there’s a huge chance for completion and a better chance of success. So most likely, your child completed the task and a reward was given for it.
This immediate reinforcement launches you both onto a positive behavior cycle! It also helps your child’s self-esteem and self-confidence! In addition, this process gets your child in the habit of completing tasks. And completed tasks equate to better behavior!
It’s amazing how fantastic kids feel when they complete a simple task and immediately receive a reward for it!
Two Types of Rewards
The Bravo! Behavior Booster will show you how to choose two types of rewards that will motivate your child to stay on a positive behavior cycle.
Not all rewards will motivate all children. What motivates one child won’t motivate another. With the Bravo! Behavior Booster, you’ll discover how to motivate your child by choosing two different types of rewards.
When your child receives the right type of reward for a completed task, the dots connect. Your child wants to repeat the process because it makes sense. Because your child feels good, then good behaviors are repeated.
Before long, unwanted behaviors disappear.
Turning Negative Behavior into Positive Behavior
Did you know that when your child craves attention that even negative attention will do? And once your child starts getting negative attention, a negative behavior cycle takes over.
All too often, you hop onto that cycle with your child, and everything flies out of control.
It seems too hard to get back onto a positive behavior cycle, and the next thing you know, both you and your child are stuck on the negative cycle.
The Bravo! Behavior Booster shows you exactly how to quit giving your child attention for negative behaviors. It’s really not that hard, but when you’re smack dab in the middle of a negative behavior cycle with your child, it seems impossible.
You just need to be given the proper tool set to help you both.
But…who would even want negative attention, anyway?
Well…that’s thinking like an adult would.
Kids think differently, especially kids with dyslexia or other learning issues.
At times, kids become desperate for any kind of attention. School stinks. Friends let them down. Tests are failed. They might even be getting bullied.
When they come home, they want smiles and positive words! But for some “kid” reason, negative behaviors take over.
And the next thing you know, it’s all a mess!
That’s the negative behavior cycle in a nut shell.
A Sample Task Sheet from the Bravo! Behavior Booster
The Best Behavior Improvement System
Download the Bravo! Behavior System and discover:
- the two types of rewards that motivate children to behave
- how to use task sheets for positive behaviors
- the difference between a behavior task and an activity task
- how to make behaviors tied to specific tasks so kids can reach a positive outcome
- how negative behavior impedes learning
- how to jump off a negative behavior cycle with your child or student
- the secrets about attention that affect all children and students
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