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How do you decide whether to seek professional help in dealing with a child’s misbehavior? Families come to the Yale...

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If you’re a parent, you are probably familiar with being provoked into a blood vessel-popping rage that instantly overwhelms any...

The best sellers would have you believe that timeout is a time for your child to think about what he did wrong. But Kazdin says that timeout is simply a period of time in which access...