Each time the behavior happens, fill one row within a minute. Write what a camera would have seen, not why you think it happened. After five days, read down each column. A repeating MO tells you when; a repeating SD tells you who and where; a repeating C tells you the job. How to use it: the lesson.
| Date, timewhere | MO: worth more becausesleep, food, time since attention, what was ending | SD: the signalwho was there, what was said, where | B: the behaviorwhat they did, how long | C: right afterwhat people did, what changed | Job?attention, away, thing, feels |
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The four jobs. Get attention (someone looks, talks, comes over). Get away from something (a task, a noise, a demand ends). Get a thing or an activity (the tablet, a snack, the swing). It feels a certain way on its own (rocking, humming; no one else needed).