No Nonsense parenting advice
Parenting is the art of acting in your child's long-term best interests. That doesn't mean they get what they want all the time. It's about teaching them how to get what they want in a way that works for us all.
Put another way, the job of parents should be to teach their children a set of behaviours that will help them be effective adults.
Compliance and flexibility are the very basis of the social contract. Without them families are chaotic. With them, helping children learn more complex behaviours is easy.
This course gives direct advice on the basic why of child behaviour and on how to help the child learn to be compliant and flexible in a way that is unthreatening and still gives them choice and control.
The course is equivalent to the advice we give parents in clinic in 6 parenting sessions.
Why pay for 6 in-clinic session with a psychologist or behaviour specialist when you can have this course in your home for less than the cost of a single session?
Example Curriculum
- Leadership means acting in the child's long-term best interests (5:25)
- How to get the child to listen to you (4:08)
- Don't be selfish (2:48)
- Modelling (2:59)
- Feeling disrespected? Get over it :) (0:58)
- Good leaders give good feedback (and can take it) (0:52)
- Good leaders make children feel safe (2:46)
- Is it ok for kids to disagree with adults? (2:39)
- What are commands and how to give them (2:43)
- Get your words right and practise under low pressure (2:39)
- Use your imagination (1:44)
- Use the child's imagination (1:19)
- Write it down and get it done (2:56)
- Giving commands_distraction and correction (1:53)
- Add more difficult commands to your list (1:10)
- Reinforce every incidence of compliance (2:03)
- Continuous versus intermittent or variable reinforcement (3:51)
- Commit to doing enough training (0:33)
- When the child refuses extinction (23:23)
- Extinction bursts (2:33)
- When is it OK to give in? (2:30)
- The ABCs of non-compliance (3:56)
- Extinction and non-compliance example (4:32)
- The car example (4:14)
- The ABCs of inflexibility (4:00)
- Eating example (4:51)
- The ABCs of disrespect (3:08)
- When extinction turns to disrespect (6:35)
Your coach
Dr Craig Wright is a psychologist with 20 years of experience in clinical practice and research positions. He obtained his PhD in 2004 and held a Research Fellowship at Griffith University between 2010-2012. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Macquarie University Reading Clinic. He has served tenure as President of Learning Difficulties Australia and on the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties.
Craig published the first ever scientific paper on the effectiveness of virtual therapy in 2011, with a focus on delivering reading interventions to rural and remote students. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed scientific articles, book chapters, and training programs, and presented at many conferences in the areas of dyslexia, dysgraphia, reading intervention, ADHD, challenging behaviour and the autism spectrum. His peer-reviewed research has appeared in the prestigious journals Neuropsychologia, Developmental Neuropsychology and Brain and Cognition.
Craig has a keen interest in the delivery of evidence-based treatment for learning, intellectual and behavioural disorders across the lifespan.
He has two children and a German Shepherd (also the Understanding Minds clinic dog).
