Students at Washington Park Elementary School are receiving rewards for positive behavior and can turn those rewards into prizes. The school recently opened Caleb’s Corner Store, a student-run shop ...

This mom created a fun and creative system for rewarding her kids’ good behavior using dollar store items. Michelle Darna (@thekindaketomama) is a mom who loves sharing funny videos, keto recipes, and ...

Only in the short term. What we want to do is promote good habits over the course of the child’s life. You know the drill. “If you stay in your seat for five more minutes, stop fighting with your ...

NORTH MUSKEGON, Mich. — Being a good kid and following the rules can be very rewarding. There was no better example of that than at today's 'Ride with Pride' event in North Muskegon. North Muskegon ...

People are often surprised to find out that I don’t use punishments or aversives when training animals. Their biggest question is always, “then how do you tell the animal it’s done something wrong?” ...

Positive reinforcement involves adding something good after a behavior to make it happen more often. Reinforcement works best when given right after the behavior happens to keep the right connections.

We’ll let Mads Horwath represent all the strips in which kids try to be good in the week before Christmas, hoping to make up ...

Two of my friends have diametrically opposed approaches for getting their kids to behave well and accomplish things. One thinks material rewards of various kinds are essential in encouraging good ...

Seven-year-old Amy rushed home from school and proudly showed her daily report card to her mom. The teacher recorded three checkmarks on the note, each indicating something bad that Amy had done that ...