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What does this all mean to practice?
What this unit teaches us
WHAT APPROACH SHOULD WE USE?
1. We can control children through the threat of punishment or the bribe of a reward. This is likely to
work pretty well with most children, most of the time. However, it is transitory and only works for as
long as the control stays constant and the sanction or reward remains big enough for the child to
comply.
2. Controlling strategies do not address a child’s unmet needs or teach children the skills to manage
independently into the future. It is therefore only a transitory solution; it controls, it does not
educate.
3. When deciding on our approach, we need to ask: do we want to control children for now? Or do we
want to educate children to become prosocial young people who are able to learn and study and get
on well with others successfully and independently into the future?
