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Four (possible) negative effects of video games

Are video games harmful for kids?

6 surprising benefits of video games

How to set healthy boundaries around video games

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Some worry video games might be addictive, harmful or that they might encourage kids to be violent. Often the issue isn’t video games themselves but how they’re used.

Video games can have several benefits, such as boosting creativity and problem-solving abilities, helping kids express themselves, and sharpening their spatial skills.

The key is to set appropriate boundaries to ensure your child has a positive, healthy gaming experience.

Video games can boost creativity, problem solving and social skills. Learn how to ensure a positive gaming experience for your child.

Should your kids play video games?

Stigma and stimming in children with autism

Defining (and destigmatising) stimming

Why do people stim?

What are the positive and negative effects of stimming?

What can (or should) be done about stimming among children with autism?

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Stimming is commonly associated with autism, but in reality everyone practises self-stimulatory behaviour.

Children with autism may stim as a coping mechanism when overwhelmed or as a way to manage or express emotions.

Parents’ goal should not be to stop a child from stimming. However, in some cases it may be important to identify and address the underlying needs met by stimming behaviours, in order to reduce stimming that may have negative effects.

Learn more about stimming (self-stimulatory behaviour), its effects, and why many children with autism stim. 

What is stimming?

Examples of challenging behaviours in children with autism 

Examples of challenging behaviours  in children with autism 

What can trigger challenging behaviour in children with autism?

How to know what triggers your child’s challenging behaviour

10 practical ways to support a child with autism

Several things can trigger challenging behaviours in children with autism, including changes in routine, sensory overload and unfamiliar settings.

When you identify what triggers your child’s challenging behaviour, you can try to address it before it happens.

There are several things you can do to provide a safe, supportive and stable environment for your child with autism.

What triggers challenging behaviour in kids with autism and how can you help them cope?

Autism and children: how to cope with challenging behaviours 

So where do these parenting styles come from anyway?

Authoritarian parenting

Permissive parenting

Uninvolved parenting

Authoritative parenting

Other parenting styles 

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The four main styles of parenting are: authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved and authoritative.

In recent years, some experts have defined a number of additional styles, including toxic, helicopter and positive parenting.

Different parenting styles can have different effects on children, but the best ones tend to be highly nurturing and set clear expectations and rules.

Learn more about the four main styles of parenting and their long-term effects on children.

Types of parenting styles: the pros and cons

Types of parenting styles: the pros and cons as listed by the experts

How ADHD affects children

What not to do when parenting a child with ADHD

Tips for raising a child with ADHD

Kids with ADHD have loads of passion, energy, creativity and curiosity. While they often struggle with focus, impulse control and organisation, there are things you can do to help.

As the parent of a child with ADHD, it’s important to know that it’s a real, treatable condition. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder, not a learning disorder.

There are simple, everyday practices you can follow to create a safe, supportive environment for your child with ADHD.

Read eight practical tips on caring for a child with ADHD and helping them thrive. 

How to help a child with ADHD

Before the battle: make a homework action plan

Staying on task: 10 tips for homework success

What to do (and not do) when your child needs help

It’s not your responsibility to teach (or reteach) the material

Make a homework action plan with your child before the school year begins.

There are 10 simple steps you can follow to help your child conquer their homework each day.

Think of yourself as your child’s ‘homework project manager’. It’s not your job to do their homework for them, but you can help them get it done.

How to trade the nightly homework battle for more positive experience with your grade-school child 

How to help a child with their homework

How to trade the nightly homework battle for more positive experience with your grade-school child

Mix up the type of rewards. Be unpredictable! {Show excitement!}

Catch your child behaving

Toolkit Reminder

Coming up next in episode 2 learn how to manage misbehaviour at home.

Deliver praise via a silent interpretive dance

It’s best to ignore them and wait for them to move out of home

You should lock yourself in your room and hide

It’s time to grab a drink and ride it out

If a child associates misbehaviour with your attention they’re more likely to misbehave

When kids are acting up, a high level of attention is best

It’s Sunday morning and all is quiet in the house. Help Raymond get to the bottom of what’s going on.

dad sips coffee and goes to ethan's room 

EP_1_HACK_OVERLAY - DO NOT REMOVE THIS - ask him to clean up/get back to my coffee/warm attention

dad asks ethan to clean up, he gets cranky (back to overlay)

dad gets back to coffee, ethan spills blocks followed by crashcourse

dad goes to sit on bed and give ethan attention, but hesitates

You're playing so nicely. How about cleaning up a bit?

You've been playing really nicely by yourself this morning, well done!

playing nicely, clean up? playing nicely, well done! you been good

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dad says ethan has been good but isn't specific enough

try again for not being specific with praise

ethan comes and chooses cereal for breakfast

specific praise, breakfast, physical affection

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You’ve got them all

{Rewards} to remember

Our top reward tips can take some practice, but they really up your parenting game.

Using rewards {like a pro}

Reward tips list

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whole family is calm and collected (conclusion)

WORKING AS A {TEAM} IS KEY

Take it from us, a strategy works best when the whole team’s in on the plan.

Including your team

Encouraging positive behaviour

It's quiet, too quiet

Use rewards in any order you want. Mix it up and have fun with them but avoid being repetitive.

Rewards

Preparing Timeout

Coming up next in episode 3 learn how to manage high risk situations. 

Choose a location with toys to keep them quiet

Put yourself in time-out instead, hide till the mayhem passes

Try keeping your kids in time-out ‘til they turn 18

Slide their meals under the door 3 times a day

Ask your child repeatedly to do something, give up, drink or cry or both

Take a deep breath, yell to get your child’s attention, take them to time-out

Approach your child, give them stop-start instructions, time-out if needed

Ignore your child’s misbehaviour as long as you can, explode, put yourself in time-out

Misbehaviour, straight to time-out, child comes out when they’re ready

A family moment at the dinner table escalates. Bring peace to the home... or peas might fly!

dad cooking, daughter dances annoyingly on tablet

Ignore her/walk over to her/take away the device/ask her to stop 

Dad ignores loud child, child continues making noise 

Repeat your instruction/take away the device 

Reward her behaviour (Even if you don't feel like it)

Dad rewarding child's good behaviour & dinner starting

Explain in detail why she needs to follow the rules

Tell her she’s not going to visit her friend

Giver her a quick smack/explain the rules/tell her she can't visit her friend/time for time-out

Don’t fall into the trap of talking too much, when children misbehave.

Dad telling child she can't visit her friend 

Taking away social events can be devastating to a child

Repeat your instructions/warn her about time-out/take her to time-out

Repeat instructions twice only before using a time-out

Warning (or threatening) to give time-out only heightens the situation.

Mis-timed affection can actually reinforce misbehaviour

Ask for an apology/Remind her why she was in time-out/Tell her she’s completed time-out

Dad reminds child why she was in time-out 

Now is not the time to revisit the problem behaviour

FINDING {BALANCE}

Keeping energy for both discipline and rewards

Wrap Up

Managing misbehaviour at home

War and peas

Use these discipline steps in order for maximum effectiveness.

Discipline steps

Plan for a tough situation

That’s all the episodes done for now. Everything you’ve learned so far can be found in your parenting Toolkit. 

Find your partner, tell them it’s their turn, get back to what you were doing

Game plan, rehearse, explain the plan, coach as you go, review

Plan rewards and a practice run before hand

Leave it until right before the situation to explain.

Perform a dramatic re-enactment of what’s gone wrong in the past

Ask your child to listen up and keep quiet

Give your child plenty of notice and explain well ahead of time

State the rules positively (example: ‘play nicely’)

State the rules negatively so it’s clearer (Example: ‘don’t fight’)

Stick to being serious so your child knows it’s important

Demand Oscar winning performances from all involved

Discuss what went well, not so well and reward your child’s positive behaviour.

A peaceful BBQ with friends takes a turn. See how Dave navigates misbehaviour inside and outside the home.

dad has bad dream, then yells at kid chasing bird

Dad ignores Ollie and keen to catch-up with his friends

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Should your kids play video games?

What is stimming?

Autism and children: how to cope with challenging behaviours

Types of parenting styles: the pros and cons as listed by the experts

How to help a child with ADHD

How to help a child with their homework

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Dave,

Father of 2

Tired of the tantrums?

Parenting strategiesThat Work

It's quiet, too quiet

War and peas

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Should your kids play video games?

What is stimming?

Autism and children: how to cope with challenging behaviours

Types of parenting styles: the pros and cons as listed by the experts

How to help a child with ADHD

How to help a child with their homework

What Dads Say

Dave,

Father of 2

Tired of the tantrums?

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