Go to Your Room!:
Consequences That Teach

by Shari Steelsmith

Introduction
1. Your Rules and When Children Break Them
2. What Are Consequences?
3. Choosing and Using the Right Consequence For Your Child
4. Delivering the Consequence and Following Through
5. Common Misbehaviors and Effective Consequences

· Activities/lessons, won’t follow through on
· Allowance, squanders
· Argues with parent
· Baby sitter, misbehaves for
· Back talks parent
· Bad language, uses
· Bathe, won’t
· Bed, won’t go/gets up
· Begs at the store
· Blames others
· Car, misbehaves in a
· Chores, protests
· Chores, does poorly
· Chores, fails to do
· Church, misbehaves in
· Coat/shoes, loses
· Critical of others
· Cuts classes
· Damages property
· Dawdles
· Defies parent

· Dirty looks, gives
· Friends, has over without permission
· Get dressed, won’t
· Gossips
· Hits/kicks
· Homework hassles
· Ignores parents
· Insults cook
· Lies, tells
· Meals, won’t eat
· Misses deadline for returning home
· Name-calls
· Nonverbal disrespect
· Put-downs, uses
· Repeats self
· Restaurant misbehavior
· Room, won’t clean
· Room, won’t go to or stay there
· Runs off on outings

· Says “Huh?” a lot
· School misbehavior
· Self care, neglects
· Share, won’t
· Sibling, mistreats
· Slams doors
· Spits
· Sportsmanship, poor
· Steals
· Table, won’t stay at
· Takes things without permission
· Tantrums
· Tattles
· Teases, unkindly
· Teeth, won’t brush
· Throws things
· Toys, won’t pick up
· Volume control, abuses
· Whines
· Yard/house, leaves without permission

6. Planning For a Specific Problem
Other Good Books
Index

Useful for 3–14 years
160 pages
$14.95 paper

“. . . ‘must’ reading for any parent ever felt the need of a common- sense guide for improving their child’s everyday behavior at home or in public.” Midwest Book Review

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About the Author:
Shari Steelsmith

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Go to Your Room!:
Consequences That Teach