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Are you helping or hurting your child's behaviour?
Whether they’re angels or devils, your children are probably behaving as they do because of the climate you’ve created. So before you issue your next reward or punishment, take this quick quiz and find out exactly what you’ve got to answer for…
 
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1. When your kids do something wrong, how do they react?
  They try to explain how it happened or why, then make amends
  They admit it and then they duck
  They find someone to pin it on
 
2. If during rough play your children break something, they:
  Take immediate evasive action
  Sweep it up and come to you to confess
  Report it to your husband, who’s quite easy-going about such things
 
3. If your child whines and screams for treats every time you take him with you to the supermarket, you:
  Leave him with someone on shopping days, just until he’s older
  Buy the treats the minute you get to the store to head off a tantrum
  Give him a copy of the shopping list to help you, and then buy him treats only if he behaves
 
4. If your two oldest are calling each other names, you:
  Explain that name-calling is not acceptable behaviour and offer alternative ways to settle their differences
  Occasionally send them to their respective rooms without explanation, but other times just try to ignore the behaviour
  Immediately send them to their respective rooms without any explanation
 
5. If your pre-schooler needs to hear instructions two or three times before she acts on them, you say:
  ‘What do you have between your ears, potatoes?’
  ‘I was hoping you would be finished – you’re usually so good at helping me out.’
  Nothing – by that point, I am usually so frustrated that I do the task myself
 
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