> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:41:10 -0700, Joseph William Stasaitis wrote:

>> This is
>> the process of converting something into its opposite.  In other words,
>> getting the opposite of what you want.  In our interactions with
>> children this is something to guard against.

>
> Years ago I was working around a Head Start program. The teacher, the
> very young teacher, developed a behavior management strategy of taking a
> disruptive child over to the snack area and giving them juice to quiet
> them down...!!
>
> So she was, in fact, rewarding the disruption even though it did quiet
> the child down usually. The overall result was an increase in disruptive
> behavior in the entire class until this error was pointed out to her.