What happens when parents or caregivers don’t agree on how to handle behavior? It’s a common challenge that can undermine even the best intentions. In this lesson, Dr. Kazdin explains how to manage differences without creating confusion or conflict. Learn how to stay consistent, support each other’s efforts, and work toward a nurturing family environment, even when your approaches don’t always align.
🎯 Learning Objectives
• Understand how conflicting approaches can impact behavior change
• Learn strategies for staying consistent when caregivers aren’t fully aligned
• Discover how to support each other without needing total agreement
• Explore techniques for preventing mixed messages to the child
• Recognize how coordination (even without consensus) fosters a nurturing environment
📚 About the Course
Everyday Parenting gives you access to a toolkit of behavior-change techniques that will make your typical day in the home easier as you develop the behaviors you would like to see in your child. The lessons provide step-by-step instructions and demonstrations to improve your course of action with both children and adolescents. Among many techniques, you will learn how even simple modifications to tone of voice and phrasing can lead to more compliance. The course will also shed light on many parenting misconceptions and ineffective strategies that are routinely used.
The key to the course is practice. It is not enough to know the strategies; you have to do them to reap the rewards. Using the techniques on a temporary basis will lead to permanent change.
Chances are your parenting is perfectly fine and working the way you would like. But if you have any frustrations with your child or would like improve your effectiveness in changing your child’s behavior, these videos will be a very useful guide.
📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNeyEGNxBvNdOVlianDYgWuc9&si=WvX4JltzYzj7faKi
🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/everyday-parenting
🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/everyday-parenting-abcs-child-rearing
