Wednesday, April 12, 2017

"If you are punishing an unwanted behavior, there is a desirable behavior you should be rewarding much more."

I don't (intentionally) use positive punishment in my training, but this applies to negative punishment as well.  I'm just posting it as a good reminder to myself that - at least in life/manners training - there are always desirable behaviours that we can be rewarding more heavily.
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