A short YouTube talk by Ming @ Agents of Speech advising parents to lock up household items to prevent children from engaging in undesirable behavior. The speaker frames this as prevention—reducing the need to scold—and as a way to build a better relationship with the child, referencing therapists' tidy, locked environments as a model.
Why you should lock your things up inside of your house. And this advice has been very useful to parents, and they have reported a lot of good results by doing this exact advice. The reason why therapists have a very clean room and clean, I mean, like, tidy room, like, where a lot of stuff is inside boxes, they're locked up, like, there's nothing on tables and whatnot, is because we want to prevent any bad behavior from happening. And we want to prevent us from scolding the kid or saying no or telling them that's not the right thing to do, when all we had to do was to prevent it from happening in the first place. The reason why we're doing this inside the house is because we also want to build a good relationship with the child. So, first of all, prevention.
