Over time,
reward her
only half the time, and eventually
reward with
only an occasional treat, but always praise your animal companion
for good behavior.
Once you are sure that your dog has identified the
behavior in question, you can start to offer the food
reward only every other time — you should still praise your dog
for good behavior, however.
By implementing
reward - based techniques, she was not
only able to reset the boundaries and keep Mickey in line, but also show him how to succeed and continuously
reward him
for his
better behaviors!
The parenting
behaviors are assigned to nine subscales (with item examples in brackets): positive parental
behavior («I make time to listen to my child, when he / she wants to tell me something»), autonomy («I teach my child that he / she is responsible
for his / her own
behavior»), rules («I teach my child to obey rules»), monitoring («I keep track of the friends my child is seeing»), discipline («When my child has done something wrong, I punish him / her by taking away something nice [
for instance, the child can't watch TV,...]»), harsh punishment («I slap my child when he / she has done something wrong»), ignoring unwanted
behavior («When my child does something that is not allowed, I
only talk to him / her again when he / she behaves
better»), inconsistent discipline («When I have punished my child, it happens that I let my child out of the punishment early»), and material
rewarding («I give my child money or a small present when he / she has done something that I am happy about»).