Discover lessons, activities, books and worksheets for teaching the essentials of responsible decision-making and self-control.
Challenge is universal, and research shows that there are two distinct groups that emerge based on how we respond in the face of challenge. One group of people responds well to challenge in their life. They use proactive means and become stronger through the challenge. On the other hand, we have a group of people that really gets stuck in the face of challenge. For whatever reason, they run into barriers, sometimes go backward and suffer quite a bit...
Self-regulation is the ability to manage your thoughts, emotions and behaviors in order to achieve long-term goals. By regulating your physical, emotional and cognitive processes in healthy, pro-active ways you are more inclined to be successful in school, at work and in your personal life. Challenge in life is inevitable, and to effectively respond to challenge it’s critical to develop skills in these three separate areas...
In my estimation, nearly 90 percent of what we do for behavior management is following the Antecedent Behavior Consequence (ABC) model. This is how most of us have been trained to manage behaviors. Antecedent is what comes before the behavior. Then we have the behavior followed by the consequence...