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Hi, my name is Jason, and I will be doing competency number five: helping parents use directed discussion for rule-breaking. I'll start right off the plate. Okay, so the next using directed discussion for rule-breaking. So, with this strategy, we kind of help children learn how to follow rules and how to act appropriately; we respect that. So, it is mostly used when a kid knows, occasionally forgets, it breaks a rule, and it focuses a lot on a quick reminder but also having them practice that what you're supposed to behave or how they're always supposed to be implemented right. So, the first thing that we have to do, as you can see in this PowerPoint behind me, is you first have to get your kids' attention. The second thing you have to do is you briefly and calmly say what the problem is, and then after that, you say why it's a problem. So, you want to be able to give them that reason why, right? They need understanding, right? It's a problem in the household, whether they can get hurt or something else. They can ask them about the correct rule, and if they don't know, it's okay to remind them, right? Because it's really hard to remember new rules, especially even be getting that you have to practice it. And then after that, you just praise, praise, praise. So, what I want to do is I'm going to first go over the example that we have so before we do the exercise. So, in an example up here, we have: "Got your attention, Karl. You just run in the house; you might break something or hurt yourself." What's up? "Robot moving in the house." And then after he tells you in your mind, you say, "Okay, show me. Go back and start again, and that's much safer. I like it when you walk in the house."
A key point about this specific strategy is that what you do—the praise—does not have to be very enthusiastic; it can just be something very to the point: "Thanks for following the rule," "Thank you for showing me," right? So, it doesn't have to be super over-the-top like any other praise that we relate to sometimes. Okay. So, if you guys go to page 41, that's where our exercise is going to be. Yeah, and what I want you guys to do is work in pairs, and we're gonna have about maybe seven minutes to do this exercise. What you're going to do is you're going to think about a rule that your kiddo breaks often, or just imagine your kiddo breaking a rule, and write down what you would say to your child for each step that is listed on the exercise. And then after we finish this exercise, we are going to share what we have and kind of just go over our different experiences with this. Okay. Do you guys understand the exercise? You have so many questions? Yeah. Okay. So, let's go ahead and practice this with your partner. Okay, I'm gonna say a limit of seven minutes. Okay, start. Okay.
So, in role play, two things I think I did really well with this is I provided a really good idea what this strategy looks like and gave good examples of it. Another thing was giving that really clear explanation of what each step kind of looks like. And then something that I could have done better, I think, would be maybe go further into checking the understanding of the parents. Yeah. Thank you.