Everyday Parenting: The ABCs of Child Rearing - Practice Lesson: Using Antecedents to Prompt Positive Behavior – with Dr. Alan Kazdin

Can you really change your child’s behavior just by changing how you make a request? In this interactive lesson, Dr. Alan Kazdin walks you through a simple but powerful mirror exercise that helps you practice using antecedents effectively. You’ll see how things like tone, posture, and word choice can drastically improve your child’s willingness to listen and cooperate. 🎯 Learning Objectives • Practice delivering prompts with and without negative setting events • Identify how tone, body language, and facial expressions affect outcomes • Learn to use positive antecedents like choice, proximity, and gentle voice • Understand why practice (even in a mirror) is essential for lasting behavior change • Apply refined prompting techniques during everyday parenting moments 📚 About the Course Everyday Parenting gives you access to a toolkit of behavior-change techniques that will make your typical day in the home easier as you develop the behaviors you would like to see in your child. The lessons provide step-by-step instructions and demonstrations to improve your course of action with both children and adolescents. Among many techniques, you will learn how even simple modifications to tone of voice and phrasing can lead to more compliance. The course will also shed light on many parenting misconceptions and ineffective strategies that are routinely used. The key to the course is practice. It is not enough to know the strategies; you have to do them to reap the rewards. Using the techniques on a temporary basis will lead to permanent change. Chances are your parenting is perfectly fine and working the way you would like. But if you have any frustrations with your child or would like improve your effectiveness in changing your child’s behavior, these videos will be a very useful guide. 📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNeyEGNxBvNdOVlianDYgWuc9&si=WvX4JltzYzj7faKi 🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/everyday-parenting 🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/everyday-parenting-abcs-child-rearing