Well, to an extent. But with toddlers you have a whole other dimension to leverage (for the good and the bad): modeling behavior. Kids are crazy copycats, it’s often ‘easy’ to convince children to do something if you do it yourself, but then, the opposite is also true 😬. Behavior you don’t want to be copied will still be copied.
Recently watched my parents try to train a new dog. They absolutely don’t have the patience or consistency to do it. Even after sending it to be trained by someone else, they failed so miserably at following the trainer’s instructions they had to return the dog. Really put my childhood into perspective.
My mom learned how to train her dogs… long after my siblings and I had grown up. She now sees my aunt with her new puppy, doing the shit she might have done with us, and criticizing her for it.
I mean, I’m glad she learned, and can recognize shitty instruction. Would’ve been nice if she’d understood that reward works better than punishment back when I was a kid, though.
At least for the toddler years, dog training and child raising have more similarities than differences. Parents are just too proud to admit it.
Well, to an extent. But with toddlers you have a whole other dimension to leverage (for the good and the bad): modeling behavior. Kids are crazy copycats, it’s often ‘easy’ to convince children to do something if you do it yourself, but then, the opposite is also true 😬. Behavior you don’t want to be copied will still be copied.
Source: parent of two toddlers.
Recently watched my parents try to train a new dog. They absolutely don’t have the patience or consistency to do it. Even after sending it to be trained by someone else, they failed so miserably at following the trainer’s instructions they had to return the dog. Really put my childhood into perspective.
My mom learned how to train her dogs… long after my siblings and I had grown up. She now sees my aunt with her new puppy, doing the shit she might have done with us, and criticizing her for it.
I mean, I’m glad she learned, and can recognize shitty instruction. Would’ve been nice if she’d understood that reward works better than punishment back when I was a kid, though.
Toddler years? I plan on keeping up with dog style training well into teenagehood.
Let us know how that works out. We have 2 gods and a 7 y/o child.
They’ve all been untraining each other since about day 300.
Well, you see, gods are in charge of you, not the other way around. Source:Ancient Greece
Dog training is a mystery to me. Should I be kept away from children?
So, conditioning ? rewards ? pets ?
that’s cursed
that’s also an interesting perspective
I keep saying that the best parrenting book that I’ve ever read was Don’t shoot the dog by Karen Pryor.
Sounds like an appropriate Christmas gift for Kristi Noem.