Tantrums in the Grocery Store – Part 3

Did our kids ever misbehave in public while they were in their formative years?  Yes, but it was curtailed rather quickly.  Our secret was our discovery of the musculocutaneous nerve that derives from the lateral cord of the Brachial Plexus network of nerve fibers.  These nerve fibers lie adjacent to the trapazius muscle, the large…

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Tantrums in the Grocery Store – Part 2

Let’s examine some information on behavioral modification.  If you study psychology, you will learn of a man named Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in behavioral conditioning (Pavlov’s dogs).  His conditioning program, sometimes referred to as “Pavlov’s reflex”, showed that behavior could be conditioned through a series of applied stimuli.  Based…

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Tantrums in the Grocery Store – Part 1

Last week, we talked about the importance of teaching your children respect for their elders.  As parents, we are “elders” to our children and expect them to respect us as well.  This is never more important than when we are in public and our children’s behavior is being witnessed by “everyone in the world”.  How…

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