BehaviorBandAid.com
No diaper dialogue, no stroller stories and no toy tips...simply, no-nonsense advice about child behavior and how to make it better.
BehaviorBandAid.com is a website offering fun and professional behavior lessons for parents dealing with the nicks and scrapes of childhood behavior challenges. The website is developed and maintained by Dr Baker Wright, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who is the Director of Clinical Family Services for Behavior Management Consultants, Inc in Tallahassee, Florida. Dr Wright works with individua
Small things are big!
17/11/2016
You Don't Say? Body Language Speaks Volumes More Than Words. To understand what someone is communicating, watching is as important as listening.
30/10/2016
7 Things Pros Wish Parents Knew About Discipline Good cop. Bad cop. How about better cop? We asked experts: If you could change anything about the way parents approach discipline, what would it be? Here's the tough love.
30/06/2016
Thoughts on this??? www.ourly.help. (Other than the idea that "kids outgrow rewards" - I wonder if they are doing it for free).
22/02/2016
5 Questions to ask to see if you are setting up for your child's bad behavior:
https://behaviorbandaid.com/2013/05/19/578/
Setting things up for better behavior...or worse? "This child just cannot sit still" It was my first year of graduate school and my first behavior analysis professor asked the class what seemed to be a fairly easy question regarding a student's be...
Oh, my...
01/07/2015
There have to be others...what are your thoughts?
The Myth Of The Perfect Toddler I've noticed that those parents regaling me with tales of well-behaved, docile toddlers are either immersed in nostalgia or are too exhausted to notice their toddler has emptied the entire refrigerator and placed all the eggs in individual Tupperware containers.
20/06/2015
Im not sharing this because its from HAAAAVVAD. Im sharing it because I think its right...what do you think?
Harvard psychologists have been studying what it takes to raise 'good' kids. Here are 6 tips. Help unlock your child's best self with a few tried-and-true strategies.
19/06/2015
Summer-time silliness already getting to you? This post seems to come up a lot, so I figured I would refresh it. Enjoy.
Stop acting so silly!! 4 tips for getting kids to calm down Look, kids are going to be silly. They are going to be loud, laugh at nothing, and run around the house screaming with socks on their ears and underwear on their heads. I am pretty sure that is wha...
18/06/2015
Please. If you have any interest in Autism, any at all, take the time to watch this.
WATCH: The forgotten history of autism Fascinating insight into the steep rise in autism cases.
17/06/2015
Oh boy...here we go again. 11 year old playing by himself outside without his parents = CPS being called. Ugh.
Florida Parents Under Investigation After 11-Year-Old Found Playing Alone in Yard for 90 Minutes A Florida couple, who wish to remain anonymous, are under investigation for child neglect after an unknown neighbor called CPS on them because the neighbor was not ok with the fact that the couple's 11-year-old was playing basketball alone in his yard...
28/05/2015
Is the reward for your child's behavior simply the avoidance of punishment? Sounds bad when you say it that way...here are some things to consider.
Three ways to avoid "behave, or else" parenting Think about your child's behavior-is the reward avoidance of punishment? If so, you need to turn your ship around. You may be in the nasty cycle of punishment and not able to get out of it. Thin...
28/05/2015
"Grit." "Perseverance." "Resiliency." It doesn't matter what you call it...your kids will need it. Here is another example.
3 Secrets to Raising Kids Who Don’t Give Up Kids who have grit learn how to persevere to reach long-term goals. So how do we raise kids with grit?
26/05/2015
Hop in...the water is just fine.
5 things your kid's swimming teacher can teach you about parenting Alright, so you’re not ready to listen to parenting advice from a hunky college kid teaching your kid how to swim? Not learning anything from the “too skinny to be healthy, but ...
11/05/2015
HMMM. Thoughts? Very interesting...except the part where they warn against "Behavioral Band-Aids." I think if they saw www.BehaviorBandAid.com, they would be OK with that one.
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10/05/2015
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all mom's who have all the questions...and answers!
22/04/2015
The mother of these two said in her original post, "My twin sons with severe autism just ran in the Boston Marathon.. again! ABA was what got them to the finish line." Beautiful. She has also written a book called Silent Running that details their "race" of life.
Family uses running for outlet Breaking news for New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester, including Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island
14/04/2015
My goodness. I guess I should stop telling stories about how I rode my bike everywhere when I was a kid, played in the neighborhood all day until my parents rang our bell outside the back door and went home when the street lights turned off (and a lot of times after that).
'Free-range' parents being investigated by Child Protective Services again The two Maryland children at the center of an investigation last year for walking home alone from a neighborhood park were taken into custody by Child Protective Services.
02/04/2015
13/03/2015
Mr. Richard Hart: Tricare should re-evaluate the policy regarding ABA therapy and the negative... TRICARE WILL BE SETTING UP BOTH THEIR BENEFICIARIES AND PROVIDERS FOR FAILURE BY IMPLEMENTIG THIS START DATE OF OCTOBER 20, 2014. If this continues...