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By Mayo Clinic staffAt home, you can begin chipping away at problem behaviors by practicing the following:
- Recognize and praise your child's positive behaviors.
- Model the behavior you want your child to have.
- Pick your battles. Avoid power struggles.
- Set limits and enforce consistent reasonable consequences.
- Set up a routine. Develop a consistent daily schedule for your child.
- Build in time together. Develop a consistent weekly schedule that involves parents and child being together.
- Work with your spouse or others in your household to assure consistent and appropriate discipline procedures.
- Assign your child a household chore that's essential and that won't get done unless the child does it. Initially, it's important to set your child up for success with tasks that are relatively easy to achieve and gradually blend in more important and challenging expectations.
