Recognize good behavior when you see it. Parents who notice good behavior and give their child praise affection and rewards have better results than parents who always seek to criticize and punish their child.

Recognize good behavior when you see it. Parents who notice good behavior and give their child praise affection and rewards have better results than parents who always seek to criticize and punish their child.

1. Your primary parenting style determines how you interact with your children and is responsible for many of the behavior issues that you may be seeing in your children. You can identify what your parenting style is and how it effects your children by taking a parenting styles quiz.

2. Each child is different so you'll need to adjust your parenting approach to be the best "fit" for the each child in your family. In parenting one approach rarely works for all children.

3. As a parent you really only have two options: notice the good things your child does and give your child the attention he craves or your child will force you to pay attention to him with disruptive behavior.

4. The way you treat your children now, while they are still in their formative stages, will eventually become the way they treat themselves as adults.

5. You will attain best results when you do the following things: You clearly define your expectations of your children. You assist them in setting and achieving goals. You assist them in finding appropriate alternatives to replace bad behavior

6. Good practice for parents is to be sure that children participate in identifying behavior issues and in setting the consequences for bad behavior and the rewards for good behavior.

7. Parenting effectiveness is based on being consistent. Consistently enforce consequences when children misbehave and be sure to notice and award recognition for specially good behavior.

8. The definition of crazy parenting is to continue to do the same exact things that are not working except yelling louder. If your children haven't responded to your particular parenting approach it is time to learn methods that actually work.

Responsibility-based parenting means learning the core concepts we just touched upon and then integrating them into your new and more effective parenting style. I call this "responsibility-based" parenting and it's goal is to teach children to take responsibility for their life When the child "owns" their own behavior you'll begin to see dramatic improvements in every area of their life.

Even minor changes in how you greet your child, your tone of voice and the way you react to the inevitable behavior issues can have a major effect on your child's behavior and attitude. Try these basic concepts and expect to see positive changes in your child by adjusting your own approach and attitude.