- If you want to understand the behavior of a person or group, look for what rewards that behavior. You will invariably find something, but i may be something unexpected.
- If you want to encourage a behavior in a person or group, find a way to reward it.
- If you want to discourage a behavior, decide what behavior you’d like in its place, and reward that.
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This is a good one, Charlie.
I wonder how this could be applied to such shenanigans as the teen beating that is all over the news right now?
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That’s a good question. The thing is, that kind of beating of the “outsider” was going on long ago — and I had the broken teeth and hospital visit to prove it — so one thing I wonder is if there are really more of them happening, or is it just that cheap video cameras and YouTube has made it much more visible?
You’ve managed to sum up this parenting article quite nicely:
http://www.slate.com/id/2188744/pagenum/all/#page_start
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