Where do kids bad habits come from? The first step in determining a child’s bad habits is observation:

• Are childrens' bad habits a result of learned behavior?
• Do teenagers bad habits come from interacting with the “wrong” crowd?
• Do children have bad habits because they know they annoy us?
• What would happen if we observed their behaviour without reacting? Would your child's bad habit disappear, or would your child's bad habit get worse?

Maybe you weren’t aware your teenager had a bad habit – it was just “something they did”. 

Any behavior that is repeated without conscious thought is a habit.

If you see your children repeating behaviors so often they become a habit, recognising this may be the first step in helping to eliminate your children's bad habit, or changing your children’s bad habits for a beneficial ones.

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