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Dining out with children: effectiveness of a parent advice package on pre-meal in appropriate behavior

K E Bauman, M L Reiss, R W Rogers

    Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
    |January 1, 1983
    PubMed

    Insights

    A parent advice package effectively reduced children's disruptive restaurant behavior by over 50%. These positive changes in child behavior were maintained even when parents implemented the strategies independently and in new environments.

    Area of Science:

    • Child Psychology
    • Behavioral Interventions
    • Family Studies

    Background:

    • Parenting strategies significantly influence child behavior in public settings.
    • Restaurant environments can pose challenges for managing child conduct.
    • Parental praise is a key component in reinforcing positive behaviors.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To evaluate an advice package aimed at modifying restaurant environments and promoting parental praise.
    • To assess the package's effectiveness with and without experimenter support.
    • To determine if the intervention's effects generalize to different settings and independent implementation.

    Main Methods:

    • Experiment 1: Assessed package effectiveness with experimenter assistance using videotaped child behavior.
    • Experiment 2: Examined independent family implementation and generalization across two restaurants using in vivo data.
    • Nine families were assigned to groups varying in implementation order and training timing.

    Main Results:

    • Pre-meal inappropriate behavior decreased by an average of 51% in Experiment 1.
    • Parents successfully reduced children's pre-meal disruptive behavior in Experiment 2.
    • The positive effects on child behavior generalized to a second restaurant setting.

    Conclusions:

    • The advice package is effective in reducing children's inappropriate behavior in restaurants.
    • The intervention can be successfully implemented by families without direct experimenter supervision.
    • The positive behavioral changes are generalizable across different restaurant environments.

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