positive parenting martin seligman
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Positive Parenting - Martin Seligman
Sleeping with babies
Synchrony (mimicking) games
Toys that promote flow
“No”Provide unconditional
Save PRAISE for real successChores
Best Moments
Pre-view tomorrow
DreamlandIn rare circumstances, make a deal
Build a cardboard house together
A children’s strengths survey
Recalling good and bad things from the day
Match to strengths
Immediate and significant positive (highly desired toy)Focus on happy picture
Eating or reading together
Spending time together
Interactive at wide range of levels
At about age five
Love
Affection
Ebullience
Warmth
Calibrate it to the scale of the success
Say it repeatedly while falling asleep
Intend to dream about it
Call up a happy picture in your mind Make it into a movieNo more than twice per childhood
Only as a last resort
For promise to change unwanted behavior, with clear, meaningful, and significant consequences for that positive on first and second breach of promise (temporary, then permanent loss of toy)
Good predictor of future positive mental health
Reserved strictly forDangers
Limit settingNot inconveniences
Non-depressed adultsAverage 2 positive to 1 negative thought
What did you like today?
Children should be higher
What do you want to do tomorrow ?
Works well at the age of five
Seligman, M. E. (2002). Authentic happiness: using the new positive psychology to realize your potential for lasting fulfillment. New York: Free Press.
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