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tadamsmar comments on Book Review: Kazdin's The Everyday Parenting Toolkit - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 31 March 2014 09:29PM

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Comment author: tadamsmar 11 April 2014 02:02:33AM 0 points [-]

I still don't think you are reinforcing separation. You are not giving them a tangible or intangible reward when they separate. Also, I don't see that the mere act of separating them will alienate them from each other.

But I can see that it's plausible that there might be a better strategy than separating them.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 11 April 2014 05:53:57AM 0 points [-]

If I separate them they immediately switch to other objectives (reading a book, playing lego...) and gain reward from that. It extinguishes the joint play.

I agree that it doesn't alienate them. For that I'd have to reward them for avoiding each other.