Sweat the Small Stuff
These days, experts often suggest that parents and teachers should ignore small misbehaviors. If you follow this advice, you will not be able to teach your children good habits and routines because routines can only be built on small behaviors. A good bedtime routine, for instance, is about 10 - 15 small behaviors put into a sequence and trained into the child.
The other reason why small behaviors are important is that children learn that you mean what you say on the many small directions that you give them each day. For instance, they learn this valuable lesson when you insist that they pick up their toys. It’s very important that you follow through with such directions. If you don’t, you will never be able to get compliance with bigger issues like curfew.
There is one thing to avoid when you deal with small misbehaviors. Make sure you don’t punish every little thing that children do wrong. You don’t want all that negativism in your home or classroom. However, you do have to take charge of the small behaviors and insist that children do them correctly.
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