Posted by Jason Kottke on under prae, ollie, rewards, rage, parenting, attitude, psychology, appearance, teeth, parents, parental pressure | 
When the usual methods of getting your child to do something fail, perhaps try the exact opposite approach instead.
They direct the parents to temporarily back off almost entirely: to stop asking their child to do the desired behavior and say it's OK not to do it at all, stop offering praise or other rewards for doing it, and mask their attitude of engaged enthusiasm or frustrated rage with an appearance of bland disinterest in whether the child does it or not. What happens next, frequently, is that within a day or two the child starts doing the behavior with no prompting from parents or anyone else.
The explanation of why this technique works is pretty interesting. We've tried it a bit recently with Ollie and his extreme disinterest in brushing his teeth and we're seeing some promising results, although I imagine this works better with slightly older kids.
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Posted by on under cold wind blows, rewarding projects, project doesn, hardware knowledge, special tools, rewards, home improvement |
One of the easiest, but rapidly rewarding projects for home improvement is to winterize your home. The rewards are tangible very quickly, usually as soon as the next cold wind blows, or the next heating bill arrives. And, best of all, the project doesnt require a lot of special tools or hardware knowledge.
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Posted by on under epode, kickstarter, slashdot, new science, sci fi, raed, limewire, torrents, bittorrent, rewards, pioneer, datis, pilot, mp3 |
QuantumG writes "The first episode of the new science fiction drama Pioneer One has debuted and it looks like a hit. The pilot was shot for just $6,000, raised through the micro-funding platform Kickstarter, and the production is being supported through donations on the show's website. Donations can be made on a sliding scale with 'bonus' rewards for each level, such as an mp3 of the opening theme and deleted scenes. The show is being distributed through file-sharing systems such as BitTorrent and LimeWire thanks to VODO, the group who also helped produce it. Is this the future of television?"
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Posted by on under spitzer space telescope, vual, art space, reams, illustrators, public eye, raw data, nasa, msi, rewards, challenges, science, jobs |
We talked to the
Spitzer Space Telescope's visualization team about the challenges and rewards of rendering the mission's reams of non-visual data into something that catches the public eye.
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