Page 6 - Andy & Lydia Family Coaching Memory Jogger

We looked at issues with the carrot

& stick behaviourist approaches:

It can lead children to It can lead adults to Behaviourist

keep to expectations ‘manage’ rather than approaches do not get

only when they have educate. Some children to the core of why the

the external support of end up dependent on child is struggling; they

someone watching or adults; this limits fail to work out the

the immediate fear of development of skills and unmet needs and

being caught. strategies to do well on missing skills. The child

It can reduce the their own and reduces relies increasingly on

internal locus of control self-efficacy, leading to external rewards and

and social and moral helplessness. fails to build the skills to

compass for doing the sustain progress.

right thing. Problems pop back up

year after year.