Clicker Training and Operation Conditioning in the Parenting Realm

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I'm curious to hear your thoughts on clicker training and operating conditioning in sort of the parenting realm, you know, with humans instead of animals. And I'm wondering like, to what extent have you tried it? And to what extent do you feel like it's sort of a good strategy? Yeah. Clicker training is one good paradigm for that attachment theory and things more like internal family systems. They certainly can't do the process with an animal are other ways That allows people and animals to become and relaxed in different types of situations.

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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