Increasing Child's Compliance: Strategies for managing your child's behavior

Before a child is born, we hope that they can grow happily and healthy. But once they grow older, parents' expectations become higher and higher. Gradually, it reaches a point where we only focus on our children’s bad behavior, and forget about their advantages and merits. 

Even worse, if parents always use manipulative methods to handle children’s behavior problem, it will not only destroy the child's self-image, but also the relationship between parent and child.  

A good parent-child relationship is the basic foundation which cultivates positive behavior, personality, emotion and values. By using positive reinforcement like affirmation and appreciation, this can make your children feel more confident and motivated to listen, improve and change. 

Moreover, when handling problematic behaviors, parents can try to use "consequence" instead of "punishment". Punishment is comparatively offensive and can easily evoke more negative emotions, which make behavior problems more complicated and worse. The right consequences could actually motivate your child to exhibit good behavior. Ignoring, time-out, and delay or restriction of entertainment are different forms of negative consequences that parents can use for. From trial and error, the child will eventually come to understand which behavior will result in a bad outcome and make behavior less likely in the future.