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5 Ways to Reward Your Teen for Their Good Behavior

September 8, 2020 by dadofdivas Leave a Comment

5 Ways to Reward Your Teen for Their Good Behavior

Reward systems and charts might have once helped to regulate your son or daughter’s behavior, but they might not prove as effective when they enter their teenage years.

However, you can connect privileges to their actions, which could ensure they follow the rules set for both inside and outside the home. Find out how you can reward your teen for good behavior.

  1. Screen Time

Many parents often limit a teenager’s screen time, which will ensure they don’t spend their days playing games, scrolling through social media, or watching videos. However, if your teen has received a good report card or completed all their household chores, you could reward them for their hard work and effort by providing extra screen time.

  1. A Fun Birthday Party

You can guarantee your teen would jump at the chance to climb walls, complete obstacle courses, or bounce on a trampoline with their friends on their birthday. However, you could promise to only organize a party at the likes of a trampoline park if they’ve been on their best behavior throughout the year.

For example, you must state they can have a birthday party if they:

  • Complete their daily chores
  • Work hard at school
  • Are polite and respectful both inside and outside the home

You can rest assured they’ll follow the above rules if they know they’ll enjoy an epic birthday party with their friends.

  1. An Extended Curfew

If your son or daughter never argues when given an instruction, is performing well in school, and maintains a clean and organized bedroom, you could consider extending their curfew by an hour when requested.

If you believe it is safe to do so, you should allow them to spend a little longer with their friends, which will show them the benefits of good behavior. Plus, it could help you to establish trust between each other, so they’ll be less likely to break their curfew rules in the future.

  1. A New Bedroom

Many teenagers often view their bedrooms as their haven away from the rest of the world. Help them to stay on their best behavior by promising them new wallpaper, furniture, and/or accessories, which can help them to put their stamp on their interior. You can guarantee they’ll stick to every household rule if they can create a more stylish, grown-up space.

  1. Concert Tickets

Have you heard your teen’s favorite band or artist is coming to your town? If so, you could reward them for performing well in school with concert tickets, and you could even book an extra ticket so they can invite a friend to the show, too. It is a great way to show your appreciation for your son or daughter’s hard work throughout the year. Plus, it could encourage them to work harder to secure top grades and make you proud.

So, if you are scratching your head about how to improve your teen’s behavior, the above tips could be an ideal solution.

Filed Under: fatherhood Tagged With: behavior, dad, dads, father, fatherhood, raising teens, teenager, teens

To Discipline or Not to Discipline That is the Question

May 15, 2008 by dadofdivas 5 Comments

I know the answer to this title is a resounding yes, but let me go further. Have you ever had a time when you have felt like the worst parent in the world. Where you children have taken you to the limits and back and still press the boundaries further?

Yesterday was one of those days for J-Mom and I. Diva-J our oldest has lately been a bit of a challenge (to say it lightly), being demanding (to say the least), bossy, defiant, etc etc etc. We have tried many ways to combat this from time outs to limiting privileges, and sometimes they work, but there are other times where they do not even seem to make a dent in the overall issue that is occurring.

J-Mom and I have tried our best to be informed parents. We read (J-Mom more than I) about many different ways to combat this, from Jim Fey and the Love and Logic principles to Sal Severe’s principles on changing your own behavior to impact your child’s behavior to list a few. Yet, as I have said, the tricks seem to not always work.

At times I feel as if we give Diva-J too many chances and we are getting to the point where J-Mom and I are feeling like it should almost be a one shot or your out type of scenario…as there is only so much time that we can take to allow for Diva-J to eat her dinner before we have to say dinner is over, even when it leads to a dramafest of activity.

We know that much of her behavior to date has been promoted by the birth of Diva-PJ as many of these issues became at least amplified after Diva-PJ’s birth. We thought we had done a good job at preparing Diva-J for Diva-PJ, but I guess not. Not that Diva-J is outwardly hostile toward her sis which she is not, but instead she turns that hostility (at times) towards mom and dad…it simply gets to be a bit frustrating as you can probably imagine.

I have definitely not gotten into all of the details of the situation but I think you get the gist of it… So how about all of you out there…what are your tricks of the trade?

Filed Under: parenting Tagged With: behavior, Diva-J, Diva-PJ

late night ramblings

May 2, 2008 by dadofdivas 2 Comments



Well…its late and I am hoping to place Diva-PJ to bed in the near future…but we’ll see about that. This weekend is a busy one with Diva-PJ baptism this Sunday. We have J-Mom’s sister and her boyfriend arriving on Saturday for a quick visit which will be nice. We are hoping that the weekend will go off without a hitch but we’ll have to see.

I am most worried about Diva-J and how she will take the added attention to Diva-PJ at her expense…she hasn’t always taken this the best unfortunatley (not that she is outwardly hostile toward Diva-PJ) but instead she tends to act out, show extreme defience, and be an overall crank to be around since her sister was born. Lately we have even heard her say things such as the fact that she wishes Diva-PJ was back in mommy’s tummy…

Any of you have ideas for dealing with this?

Filed Under: parenting Tagged With: behavior, daughters, Diva-J, Diva-PJ, late night, parenthood, sleeping

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