THE PARENTING GUIDE : CHAPTER 7

How To Improve Child Behavior

We are all a product of conditioning. From the moment a mother answers to her babies’ cries, she is conditioning the child to cry to get attention. At the same time, the baby is conditioning the mother to understand the baby’s needs and react accordingly.

Healthy Conditioning Is Not Covert

If it weren’t for conditioning, living in urban cities would be impossible. From traffic signals to signs, symbols and colors that curb our behavior by telling us when to go, slow down, stop or turn, where to be quiet, to smoke, eat, walk, run, bike, drive or fly. We respond to so many of these commands because we’re consciously preconditioned to do so. We had to learn the meanings of all of those symbols. Who would give a drivers license to someone that wasn’t consciously following all of these signals?

In order to become a good driver, we move knowledge into the subconscious. Once we have taught ourselves, or conditioned ourselves, to react properly subconsciously, we don’t need to think about each and every move and we put driving into automatic mode. We immediately start looking for new actions to fill our conscious mind, such as rehashing situations, daydreaming, listening to the radio or talking on the phone.

Does Conditioning Endanger Critical Thinking?

Conditioning does not cancel out rationality nor critical thinking. We’re walking down the street and we arrive at a corner, the street light is telling us to wait to cross, but we don’t see any traffic coming for miles. Do we wait? Most of us will cross. Some of us will not only assess the risk factor, but also the chances of getting a jay walking ticket. Children do the same thing. They assess a situation and make choices accordingly. Helping children make the right choices is where parenting comes in and where a super sidekick can be super-helpful!

How Conditioning Can Be The Result Of Multiple Bonding Experiences

An intrinsic ingredient of bonding, conditioning can be found in the chicken soup mom made when we were sick, or the cookies grandma made for Christmas. Most of us won’t even have chicken soup unless we’re sick, just because we associate it with being sick. Others will have chicken soup when they are in need of comfort. But no chicken soup is ever as good as mom’s. It is the same with grandma’s cookies. They’re not just cookies, they evoke specific feelings.

How Conditioning Builds Memories

Conditioning is one of the biggest builders of memories. We usually remember what we have done repeatedly, whether it was Saturday movies, walks by the lake with grandpa, the ice cream parlor aunt Betty used to take us to, or family trips to the beach; these repeated experiences conditioned us. They may explain why we love the ocean, or why we’re scared of lakes, or why we’re fascinated by movies, or why ice cream makes us feel so good. They trigger programming based on earlier experiences.

Great and positive experiences fill us with self-esteem and courage. Negative experiences fill us with fear and anxiety. What we tend to overlook is that we can reprogram ourselves by creating stronger positive experiences to overwrite the old negative programming.

How To Promote Positive Conditioning To Create Positive Experiences

The GOOD PUPPY Child Cognitive Behavioral System is about reinforcing good behavior with incentives that promote each child’s own interests, in order to grow self-esteem. The system replaces old negative conditioning with positive experiences. It is about teaching children to be empathetic, caring, well-adjusted beings, in touch with themselves and the world around them. It’s about growing smart thinkers who consider consequences when making choices. Your super sidekick is here to assist you in creating positive experiences that fuel curiosity and courage.

IMPROVING CHILD BEHAVIOR & FAMILY DYNAMICS

WITH THE HELP OF YOUR SUPER SIDEKICK

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NEED HELP WITH CHILD BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT?

MEET ROGER GOOD Your Own Super Sidekick!

An icon of empathy, Roger is the puppy children want and the puppy parents prefer to adopt. Fueled by good intentions, Roger stands as translator for the younger crowd, acts out every emotion so that children won’t have to and even tracks their behavior. Roger teaches children to think critically, considering consequences before making choices.

Turning Child Behavior Management Into Child’s Play!

While behavior management is one the most trying aspects of parenting, Roger has the talent to turn it into a game for the entire family. Transforming constant repetition and dynamics that result in negative attention into positive learning experiences by enticing children to behave properly, willingly.

Positively Affecting Family Dynamics

Within this exciting new journey, new symbols replace long or repetitive explanations. “Yellow” takes a whole new meaning in this private language that changes the behavioral conversation to one that neither antagonizes nor threatens. Communication becomes quick and effective. Good is where children set off from every morning and what is expected of their choices throughout the day. Teaching children to make good choices, is what is expected from parents. But, of course, it is a lot easier with the help of your super sidekick!

GOOD PUPPY Child Cognitive Behavioral Tools defer behavior to the puppy, freeing parents from the “bad cop” role and bestowing upon them the time and the environment to become guides and moral luminaries to their children.

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IT’S EASY

JUST STICK TO THE CONSEQUENCES!

How A Fair System Builds Trust And Self-Esteem

The System keeps everyone in check. Parents can follow the simple steps, avoiding stressful situations, getting entangled in misbehavior, or over-punishing from emotional reactions. Children will seek attention with good deeds and critical thinking. As they expect to lose privileges for bad behavior, they also expect to be rewarded for good behavior. Consistency in the application of all rewards and loss of privileges will teach the child to be consistent as well.

How A Fair System Promotes Bonding

GOOD PUPPY Consequences are an agreement to work together, learn together and grow ever smarter and happier together, as a family and as individuals. By sticking to the consequences, everyone gets the respect they deserve and seek. Mutual respect builds trust and strengthens bonds.

Fairness, being the main rule of the game, welcomes children to a world that rewards commitment and honesty. Enriching children with a healthy code of ethics, expands their awareness and consciousness, while promoting a more ethical world for them to inhabit.

GOOD PUPPY Child Cognitive Behavioral Tools help children get attention for good behavior; assuring them a positive response to their needs, while building their confidence and self-esteem through daily accomplishments.

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CHILD COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL TOOLS

THE SMART COMPONENTS OF A COHERENT SYSTEM

Choose Your Tools!

Working together as a symphony of behavior, GOOD PUPPY Child Behavioral Tools send a consistent message of harmony in communication and conduct. Parents quickly learn to orchestrate these instruments to compose a balanced and uplifting routine that promotes healthy growth.

Enlist Your Little Helpers

Children’s acceptance of the system turns them into collaborators. When responsible for their actions, children look to shine and be rewarded by avoiding wrong choices.

Get ready to feed children’s curiosity and their desire to strive and to accomplish. Carefully tailor incentives and rewards to suit each child’s personality, interests and likes, or to target inhibitions or limits. GOOD PUPPY brings you the tools to help children accomplish just about anything they set their minds to!

The Child Cognitive Behavioral System was designed to improve communication. From its empathetic design, which children can understand before they can read, to its charts, tools and games to aid in the recognition and verbalization of emotions, the system itself acts as an aid in communication. This fair and systematic approach to behavior, based on privileges and bound by pre-established consequences, gives children peace of mind, within a solid structure they can trust.

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LET CHILDREN ROLL WITH THEIR EMOTIONS

LET THE DICE FALL WHERE THEY MAY

Let All Emotions Come Out

The heart of the GOOD PUPPY Child Behavioral System can only be its emotions tools. Designed to bring all feelings out, GOOD PUPPY Child Behavioral Emotions Tools range from wall charts to card games, board games, dominoes, checkers and finger puppets; all ready to get children talking and exploring their emotions.

Watch Children Put Their Emotions On The Table

Opening up can be difficult for shy or insecure children who may be afraid of being judged or set apart. Getting to truly know your children’s feelings, to understand them and help them navigate their emotions, is where GOOD PUPPY Child Behavioral Tools and your super sidekick get to show off.

Children love Roger and investigating each and every image he presents to them. Through empathy, Roger communicates with children directly, serving as a visual translator. Turning difficult situations into challenges, Roger familiarizes children with an array of emotions, putting them ahead of the game when having to face them in real life.

GOOD PUPPY Child Behavioral Emotions Tools help parents grow kinder, highly aware, emotionally intelligent human beings. Best of all, the GOOD PUPPY Child Cognitive Behavioral System really is child’s play!

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THE CHILD COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL SYSTEM

FOR HOME, SCHOOL & THERAPY

Everything Parents, Caretakers, Teachers, Counselors, Therapists & Social Workers Needed For So Long

The tool-kits are at the core of the GOOD PUPPY Child Cognitive Behavioral System. Curated for home, school and therapy, the books are designed for the most effective implementation of the system; introducing a fun, compelling and motivating game that can quickly and effectively improve child behavior and family or classroom dynamics.

Bringing Order To Child Behavior Management

Behavior management can be a daunting job. Just figuring out where to start can be overwhelming. Leading the way to clear understanding, the GOOD PUPPY Child Behavioral Toolkits take you by the hand. Starting with establishing a fair and healthy structure and understanding personalities to create the right incentives, to exploring emotions and discovering virtues, the system is rigged in everyone’s favor. Because in this game, everybody wins!

A Tool-Kit Just For You

Whether managing child behavior at home, in school, or at therapy, there is a toolkit curated for your exact needs, and all of them available in both softcover and printable PDF.

The system itself is customizable, in order to address or focus on what’s needed most in each particular scenario.

The HOME Super Sidekick, SCHOOL Super Sidekick and THERAPY Manual & Toolkit include all the information and instructions for the implementation of the system and all o f its tools.

The implementation tool-kits for therapists, which include the THERAPY Streamlined Toolkit and its Spanish version, the GOOD PUPPY Kit De Herramientas, feature a streamlined set of tools, without instructions, ready for implementation by therapists who have studied the THERAPY Manual & Toolkit.

For more information on all GOOD PUPPY Products, free downloads, educational materials, books, toys, apps & games, explore goodpuppy.com.

The GOOD PUPPY Child Behavioral System keeps the family playing under fair, pre-established consequences. All it takes is consistency to implement and maintain a healthy structure. Children love the game and will help keep parents in check and following the simple rules.

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START IMPROVING CHILD BEHAVIOR & FAMILY DYNAMICS

GET IN THE GOOD PUPPY GAME

An Inclusive Child Behavioral System

The GOOD PUPPY Child Cognitive Behavioral System is not only simple, but also inclusive. Multiple correspondences, such as colors, images and words, make it accessible to children with dyslexia, color blindness and other dissociative disorders. Its empathetic imagery, reaches children years before they are able to read. Designed for ages 3 to 9, the system consists of multiple coherent tools, some of which that can reach children up to pre-teen years.

TEACHER, PARENT OR THERAPIST?
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Choose The Tools That Best Fit Your Needs

Curated for Home, School and Therapy, the system is designed to meet parents or guardians needs with HOME, teachers and counselors needs with SCHOOL, and social workers and therapist’s needs with THERAPY. Coaches are encouraged to use the HOME tools for parent’s easiest implementation.

Gabriel Tito, MS

Child & Family Therapy
GOOD PUPPY Child Cognitive Behavioral System Collaborator, Consultant, Implementer & Master Coach
Drums & Percussion Therapist

In his fifteen years working with children, ages 3 to 18, Gabriel noticed a lack of tools to implement changes in family dynamics, prompting the creation and his collaboration on the GOOD PUPPY Child Cognitive Behavioral System. You can find Gabriel in South Florida, making families happy with quick and effective results, or online, looking to share his toys and everything he’s learned.