Can You Identify Who Owns the Problem?

Here's an exercise/quiz to help identify who owns the problem and an opportunity to receive a 15% discount on your purchase from anything in our GTI store!

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The purpose of this exercise is to learn to identify who has unmet needs and therefore "owns the problem."

Directions: Read the following situations. Have The Behavior Window handy to enter the number of the situation in the appropriate window. If you feel the behavior demonstrates that the child has a problem, place the number of the situation in the "Child Owns Problem" area of the window. If you feel the behavior cause the parent to have a problem, place the number in the "Parent Owns Problem" area of the window. If neither child nor parent seems to have a problem, place the number in the "No Problem" area of the window. If you feel that there is a conflict and both seem to have a problem, place the number in the "Both Own Problem" area.

Here are the situations:

1. Your child tells you she is worried about failing an important test at school.
2. Your daughter expresses her disapproval of her brother's friends.
3. Your children often leave a mess in the kitchen and leave you the responsibility for cleaning.
4. Your child is learning to play the guitar and asks you to listen to the chords he's learned.
5. Your child fails to come home on time to leave for a dental appointment which you must pay for anyway.
6. Your baby begins to cry while getting a tetanus shot.
7. Your daughter often gets up too late to catch the school bus and then asks you to drive her to school.
8. Your son needs the car to pick up a friend at the airport; you need it to go to a meeting.

E-mail us at family@gordontraining.com with answers that correctly identifies who "owns the problem" in the situations above. I will choose the first (5) winners. The contest will end tonight, Tuesday, April 20th at 7:30pm PST. I will post the answers to the questions tomorrow, Wednesday, April 21st.

Have fun identifying who owns the problem! Good luck to you! :)