Fifty Ways To Improve Your Child’s Behavior And Attention Span: Without Drugs, Labels, Or Coercion
- Provide a balanced breakfast.
- Consider the Feingold diet.
- Limit television and video games.
- Teach self-talk skills.
- Find out what interests your child.
- Promote a strong physical education program in your child’s school.
- Enroll your child in a martial arts program.
- Discover your child’s multiple intelligences
- Use background music to focus and calm.
- Use color to highlight information.
- Teach your child to visualize.
- Remove allergens from the diet.
- Provide opportunities for physical movement.
- Enhance your child’s self-esteem.
- Find your child’s best times of alertness.
- Give instructions in attention-grabbing ways.
- Provide a variety of stimulating learning activities.
- Consider biofeedback training.
- Activate positive career aspirations.
- Teach your child physical-relaxation techniques.
- Use incidental learning to teach.
- Support full inclusion of your child in a regular classroom.
- Provide positive role models.
- Consider alternative schooling options.
- Channel creative energy into the arts.
- Provide hands-on activities
- Spend positive times together.
- Provide appropriate spaces for learning.
- Consider individual psychotherapy.
- Use touch to soothe and calm.
- Help your child with organizational skills.
- Help your child appreciate the value of personal effort.
- Take care of yourself.
- Teach your child focusing techniques.
- Provide immediate feedback.
- Provide your child with access to a computer.
- Consider family therapy.
- Teach problem-solving skills.
- Offer your child real-life tasks to do.
- Use “time-out” in a positive way.
- Help your child develop social skills.
- Contract with your child.
- Use effective communication skills.
- Give your child choices.
- Discover and treat the four types of misbehavior.
- Establish consistent rules, routines, and transitions.
- Hold family meetings.
- Have your child teach a younger child.
- Use natural and logical consequences.
- Hold a positive image of your child.
