Abstract

EasyChild is a behavior modification software system designed to encourage children to succeed in life. This behavioral software system is designed to help raise children with consistent rewards for their achievements. EasyChild is a program for behavioral change which is grounded in both behaviorism and common sense with a premise that: “Kids can be whatever you want them to be”, provided we give them the tools and the direction they need to be successful.

EasyChild correlates behavior to the world of work. The values learned have a lasting effect on our children. Built into the program, there is an immediate value and profound effect in a families’ home life. EasyChild is for any parent or teacher who is facing the age old challenge of raising or teaching kids in today’s world.

Why does EasyChild work? Because it is based on how children learn: Operant Conditioning, where a proper response is the outcome of certain stimuli, such as rewards. However, current talk therapy and counseling espouses that Operant Conditioning may not be an important child raising theory, but that is an anachronism. Research indicates that Operant Conditioning is one of the few approaches to working with children, with and without special needs, that has efficacy.

Why? If this is fact, then “why are we raising a nation of lost children?” (Time Magazine). One domain of thought is attributed to our children’s inability to adjust to their constantly changing environment or perhaps our own inability as parents and teachers to help them manage change. This inability to adapt, and to adopt, is creating children with poor reading skills, study skills, manners and ethics. In other words, perhaps our parenting skills aren’t as ideal as we thought they would be prior to having children. Remember thinking, “We will be the best parents ever, and our children will be super stars because of our parenting skills, wisdom and life’s experiences that we will pass on to them.” For most of us, this is not how our world has turned out.

We need direction in helping our children reach their goals. We have been tracking our children’s progress for years in school grade books and Report Cards, isn’t it time we have more help, whether it be in school performance or successful life practices? EasyChild is designed to do just this. It gives parents and teachers an edge in securing success for the young lives that they touch.

While parents and teachers have reached for books and magazines for years to help them navigate the principles of behavior modification skill sets in the home and the classroom, EasyChild is perhaps the first software product to really move into this skill set niche. It creates consistency for parents and teacher’s who can’t always track, inspire, reprimand or see a child’s behavior at a given moment. It is not a parenting substitute…it is a parenting enhancement.

If child development programs adopt research-based programs like EasyChild, our children’s school performance and behavior can improve, as evidenced in the information that follows. This paper serves as a guidebook to the logic, the principles of behavior modification, the thoughts and the premises that have gone into the creation of EasyChild Software.