Professor Eva Kimonis
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So they often start looking or engaging in the same types of problematic behaviors as typical kids.
So they're not listening.
They're throwing tantrums when they're told to do something or told they can't get something that they want.
They're
hitting when they want something for some kids.
And what we know is they show the same types of behaviors that young, healthier, typically developing kids show but at a much greater frequency.
And so the problem becomes that it makes it really difficult for parents to consistently respond in a positive way.
And they tend to then move towards more of a negative response where these kids are getting lots and lots of attention for the bad behaviors and not a lot of attention for the good behaviors because most of their behaviors are bad behaviors.
And so part of what we try to do is tip the scales and give them more attention for the positive behaviors so we can increase those positive behaviors and trying to reduce the attention that they're getting for the negative behaviors.
We know from data that there have been increases in problems post-pandemic.
We've also seen a rise in different interpretations of, say, gentle parenting styles through social media and less of an emphasis on limit setting than maybe we've seen in past generations.
Yeah, they definitely, through our clinic and through the clients that we work with, we do much more commonly in recent years compared to previous years hear people
parents not wanting to put in discipline strategies, not aligning with that approach to parenting.
And that's very difficult because we know that the science of parenting tells us that the optimal type of parenting is really a combination of sensitivity and responsiveness, but also limit setting.
And this is what we call an authoritative parenting style.
And this is the type of parenting style that's been shown to be related to better long-term outcomes for kids.
But when we don't have limits and boundaries and we have more of a permissive style of parenting, children don't learn those limits like they need to early on in life.
So it makes it so much harder when they enter school years.
And they must have limits and boundaries for school to function in a healthy way, but they've not really learned that.
So that's certainly another factor that's adding to the mix.
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