Use Metaphors
When I teach Behavior Modification, I tell my students that they are learning how to serve as a “bridge over troubled waters.” My words include a metaphor — a figure of speech that is not literally true. Metaphors have long been an important part of...
Do Not Use Punishment, Except as a Last Resort
Australian schools don’t smack pupils anymore. As years pass, fewer and fewer parents smack their children. I was never punished at all as a child, except that my mother tried to pinch me sometimes. She had arthritis, so the pinches never hurt. Parents nowadays...
The Value of Feedback
When Ed Koch was mayor of New York City, he would walk about town asking people how he was doing as mayor. Being New Yorkers, the people were willing to tell him, in graphic detail at times. My university asks my students how satisfied they were with my...
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