Behaviour modification techniques?

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He gets time out or sent to a designated play space for every offence no matter how minor because it is bullying. While you may not be able to get through to him that that is not how we treat our friends at least you will be protecting the other children. He needs to be given rules that include keeping a one foot radius from anyone else or what they are doing and must stop, ask if he may play too and then play. At first sign of not playing nice he goes back to his pillow or whatever.

As far as home goes there should be no play dates with anyone he has bullied to teach him that no one wants to be his friend if he is going to act that way and that it is a privilege.

This is another situation where I feel making him go over to the child later and apologize is in itself perpetuating the bullying because he likes the attention it gets. Reminding the little kid that hey I am bigger than you and I hurt you and ok fine I'll say sorry it just has the big kid standing in the little kids personal space pretending to be sorry but really rebullying the little kid with your permission. Just my opinion. Not a fan of making a child say sorry. I praise if they do it on their own but do not make them do it.