This strategy involves paying no attention to your child while they’re behaving in challenging ways and then returning your attention when the challenging behaviour stops. For example, you might be having a family meal, and your child is bouncing on their seat. You could ask your child to sit still. If they don’t, you could remove attention by leaving your child out of the conversation and not looking at them until they stop bouncing. When your child stops, you could say, ‘I love it when you sit still on your chair at dinner. Why don’t you tell us what you did at preschool today?’