How to get a child to develop a new habit ? What are some practical tips to make it easy? Laurence Morency-Guay, professor of psychology and founder of the Parent qui apprendre platform, gives us her practical advice to achieve this.
1- Be the model of the habit to be developed : according to the theory of social learning, we notice a major impact of behaviors learned through a model.
2- Reinforce the desired behavior consistently : according to the principles of operant conditioning, a behavior must be reinforced in order to see it reproduced.
3- Focus on one habit at a time : it is important to proceed in stages so as not to discourage the child and to clearly reinforce the habit that you want him to adopt.
Here is also a fun tool to download and print that will certainly motivate your children to develop... and keep new habits!
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