KP Behavior

03/12/2026

If you want to get rid of or decrease a behavior you need to find out WHY they are doing it. Then you can start to teach the replacement skill.

03/06/2026

Your daily habits will inherently start to become your child's habits. Make them good ones.

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02/18/2026

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02/15/2026

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02/11/2026

Why do you workout?

Most likely because you feel great after a workout or for the long term benefits of losing weight, being stronger and living a healthier lifestyle.

ABA principles are for everyone. This is a simple example. That great feeling after a workout is complete is an immediate reinforcer. The long term benefits (losing weight, gaining more muscle) these are delayed reinforcer's.

Reinforcement increases the likelihood of a behavior occurring again. In this instance, working out.

01/23/2026

I had the honor to go and do a staff training with Momentum After School & Summer Program Momentum Tae Kwon Do Plus last week. They were very dedicated in understanding why a child engages in a behavior and different ways to respond to these behavior's.

I loved being able to teach a company as a whole to help more than one child at a time. With that being said, I am now going to offer staff training to businesses that work with all different kinds of children.

Please see my website for more information or reach out to kpbehavioral@outlook.com for more specific information.

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01/21/2026

“My toddler has a tantrum every time I ask them to clean up”

•Make it fun (“get the green ones and I’ll get the blue ones” or “let’s race. ready set go”)

•Make it part of a routine. Before bed time, before dinner or before getting a new toy out. This will then become an expectation and less aversive to them.

•Reinforce them picking up by you helping them clean up.

•Find their motivation. If they ask for something else, say “first clean up then _____”. Withhold what they ask for until some or all is cleaned up.

01/16/2026

The reason's your child engages in a behavior. Figure out the WHY before you respond.

Remember ALL behavior is learned. If it's an inappropriate behavior, they have likely been reinforced beforehand and it is being maintained by your response.

01/12/2026

Functional communication tips while playing!!

-Prompt specific requests if they already know how to ask for help. As you saw, he requested help but I prompted him to say open. This teaches them to be more specific and lead to less mis understandings.

-If you think you know what they’re saying but it’s unclear, repeat it. This allows for them to echo again and to help get point to point correspondence on letter pronunciation.

-Stop asking them questions all the time. Instead label what you and your toddler/child are doing. In the video, you see me doing this when I squish the play-doh and roll out the play-doh. This allows them to stay engaged and pair what you are saying with what you’re doing.

-Incorporate other skills together. In the video, you see me modeling how to roll the fish on the play-doh. This is working on motor imitation skills. When doing this, always show them how to do something first compared to doing it for them or using hand over hand.

-Mix in expressive and receptive language. Not shown in the video but an example of expressive language would be “what color is this” while dumping out the yellow play-doh. An example of receptive would be “get the blue play-doh”.

01/09/2026

Change is unavoidable. Try to keep at least 1 or 2 small daily routines the same when change is occurring.

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01/07/2026

ABA is not forced compliance.
We do not physically force your child to complete a demand.

If a kid asks me to go outside and I say "okay you need to put your shoes on first" and they say "no". I am not going to take them outside, but I will not force them to put their shoes on. They have two choices, they can put their shoes on and we go outside or we're not going outside. This is a safety hazard and will also teach consequences to actions.

Now let's say I tell a client "My choice is to go play with blocks." and they scream "NOOOO". There are a couple of different approaches I would take and they depend on the individual child's interventions. Some of these may be to prompt them to say "Can we do Lego's instead." and immediately transition to go play Legos instead or "I really don't want to play with them" and present a first then statements of "first blocks then we can go outside". Once they transition we immediately go outside and mention "nice job being flexible and going to do something you didn't want to do."

It's about teaching an appropriate protest to a demand that doesn't really matter but also teaching basic compliance.

Everybody everyday has to do something they don't want to do. How else do you teach a child how to cope or learn that there are times where you will have to do something you don't like to do.

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12/22/2025

If you automatically think "my child can't do that they're Autistic". I hate to break it to you but you are enabling them. They will be dependent on you for the rest of their lives and you are restricting them from growing to become independent.

Shift your thinking to "I would love to figure out how my son/daughter could do this one day" or "let's try it and see what happens so we know what we need to work on". Make it a goal to achieve and if it seems like a large goal, break it down into a smaller goal and work your way up to the big goal.

Yes, I understand there are some cases where your child will have no choice but to live with you and depend on you, but work on decreasing that amount of dependence. Small things, putting shoes on by themselves, putting a plate in the sink after eating, cleaning up or using a fork to feed themselves.

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