Teaching Good Behavior.
There are some behaviors we saw in our kiddos that we wanted to change and behaviors we wanted to teach them. This activity came into my mind as an answer to prayer. It's been over three weeks since we did it and we've seen great results. My kids are 4 and 3 (and 6 mo.).
Here's how to play our version of Red Light Green Light:
1. Kids draw a scenario out of a hat.
2. Parents act out (model the behavior) and the kids raise a circle -green if the behavior is good and red if the behavior being shown is not good. Then, after discussing how the red light scenarios could be changed to green light scenarios, the parents act them out again.
3. For the next week, have the kids act out the scenarios (same thing, if they choose red ones, we talk and they react them out).
For some examples of what we did: Carleton pretended to be his friend Mike and the kids practiced looking at him in the eye and answering questions (they can be shy sometimes). I've seen a total improvement. They totally talk to people and look at them now. Carleton and I also pretended to whine in the back seat of a car, share our toys, meet new friends at kids club etc. We acted out ways to have non-potty humor etc. We practiced more serious ones where the kids practiced shouting "NO" and running and telling us.
The kids love this game. It's one thing to talk about good behavior but a whole other thing to see it modeled for them and for them to practice. I was trained by a company that uses brain research to help kids learn better, and they really emphasized modeling behavior.
We will definitely play this as a family as new issues arise. It was fun and super effective.
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