This document provides tips for managing dawdling behavior in children. It recommends establishing a schedule and being an on-time role model to prevent dawdling. When dawdling occurs, the document suggests using games, incentives, and gentle guidance to encourage moving at a quicker pace, and avoiding losing your own patience through nagging or dawdling yourself.

1. SPED 112 Behavior Management

3. Dawdling

4. Preventing the Problem

5. Try to be an on-time person.

6. Try to allow lead time.

7. Establish and maintain a schedule.

8. Solving the Problem

10. Make it easy for your child to move at your pace.

11. Play Beat-the-Clock.

12. Offer incentives for speed.

13. Reward movement as well as results.

14. Use manual guidance.

15. Use Grandma’s Rule.

18. Don’t lose control.

19. Don’t nag.

20. Don’t dawdle yourself.

21. The End!