Adult responses

[Smitha]

I think positive reinforcements works well with young children. Children need to feel loved, cared for and respected. We follow love and logic in our centre and this method is based on giving children choices and helping them to make right choices by appreciating them and helping them to feel independent and valued. 

Children thrive on appreciation and positive experiences. 

[grathbun]

great adult responses for good behavior or actions can be " i love the colors you chose to build with Stacy, can you show and tell me what you built" be excited and smile about it, it builds their confidence in themselves and creates a stronger bond between you.
a good adult response for not so great behavior is " Hey Johnny, i need to have you sitting on your bottom on the chair, the chair could fall over and we could get hurt" and then add a positive after the child has done what you asked " Thank you so much Johnny that was good listening skills"  praising the child reinforces the good behavior 

[Jennifer]

When an adult lets a child know how something they did wrong made them feel it kind of puts it into perspective.

[Yuri]

When an adult responses happen, I feel children are more behaved, they listen more.

[Vale02]

Children need to feel loved and respected by adults - always praising a child makes him feel self-confident.

[Haley Philyaw]

positive reinforcement is an excellent motivator. If you create a culture of rewarding positive behaviors like cleaning up and sharing materials, and ignoring negative behaviors like throwing fits or using inappropriate language the negative behavior should theoretically extinguish. However there needs to be limits, if a child is putting themselves or others at risk it is time to intervene. In our center we emphasize taking space when a child is experiencing extreme emotions and returning to the group when they are feeling calm and safe. creating a space for children to do this is great. 

[Erica]

Adult responses that I have seen work well are positive reinforcement making the child feel good about exhibiting positive behavior so that the child wants to do it again. Another response I liked was telling the child it was alright to be upset because it helped the child feel like their emotions were appreciated. Plus really liked how a caregiver I was observing was able to distract the child from the undesirable behavior with a new fun activity.

[willsmichelle36]

children should be respected and loved by adults and they should get told they did a good job

[Elizabeth Hughes]

I have seen multiple types of parenting styles work. Some people start with emotions, some people start with actions, some people do not address emotions, some people do. All have some effect, or they would not be used. The ones that I think work best are the Authoritative parenting. This parenting focuses on high responsibility as well as high values of emotions. I think that this style provides the most long-term healthy results. It creates a value for emotions, choices, and regard for respect. Often creates adults who know how to set proper boundaries while still doing what needs to be done.