The quote from the video that resognated with me was when Dr. Greene was explaining how kids with challenging behaviors are lacking coping and problem solving skills. Strategies that parents and teachers use as a response to challenging behavior such as time- outs and other forms of punishment, are strategies that don't teach skills. Simply putting a kid in a time out corner doesn't teach the child what to do different if this problem occurs again in the future. Another quote that stood out was how parents/teachers should work with children as teammates to develop solutions to problems rather than just exerting power over them. While this all sounds very logical, I don't think I really understood this until I became a parent myself. My son does not respond well to yelling or parental power plays. It only makes the behavior worse. When we are able to talk about what happened and cone to a solution together is when I see a change in his behavior.
