The three Guidance Continuum strategies that I feel will be easy for me to implement are ignoring the behavior, redirecting and distracting, and giving choices. Many times the things that children do are harmless but can be annoying. An example of this is when you're at the table having lunch and they think it's fun to play throw the cup and ask mom to pick it up. At first you pick it up, but the second and third time it becomes annoying. This is when I would use ignored behavior strategies. “This method is based on the learning theory that negative reinforcement will eventually cause the child to stop the unwanted behavior.” (136 Gordon, Browne) If they notice that you ignore what they are doing and that it doesn't bother you, eventually the behavior will change stop. Every now and then we have that child who always wants to get into things we don't want him into, like with my grandmother. When we were younger we always wanted to play with her cute glass decorations. We knew we shouldn't play with them, but we did when she wasn't looking. With me a...
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