Forget everything you've ever heard about how to deal with kids' bad behavior. According to this leading child psychologist, you...

For those times when your kid goes from zero to possessed in 60 seconds—and you feel like you're yelling at 160 decibels—a top psychologist offers some soothing (and surprising) advice. 

Alan Kazdin, Ph.D. outlines strategies gleaned from his work with thousands of patients—and offers hope to beleaguered  parents everywhere. Here, he helps Cookie staffers with their own...

In this day of two­ earner couples and single parents, when 9­ year­ olds have cellphones, 12 ­year­ olds are binge drinking and having oral sex, and there is evidence...

Deciding how to discipline a child can be one of the hardest parts of being a parent. Even parents of...

Parents grappling with how to change the behavior of a defiant tantrum-prone child often turn in frustration to books for...

Alan Kazdin knows where I’ve gone wrong. He knows that I nag, and threaten, and then try to reason with...

What parent hasn’t had to deal with an unruly child? Throwing a tantrum in the supermarket. Refusing to go to...