How to Deal With Your Kid’s Annoying Habits
You might want to nag or scold, but positive reinforcement is more effective.
Do We Really Need Shooter Drills?
Alan Kazdin, professor of psychology and child psychiatry at Yale University, told NBC News that “the most important part of this kind of preparation is repetition, rather than realism.”
Why You Should Stop Yelling at Your Kids
It doesn’t make you look authoritative. It makes you look out of control to your kids. It makes you look weak.
One Boy, 17 Official Incident Reports and a Better Kind of Discipline
In Brooklyn, public school’s been up and running for almost two months now, and I can’t stop thinking about Jmyha Rickman. She’s the 8-year-old Illinois schoolgirl who threw an epic tantrum last year and was hauled out of Lovejoy Elementary in handcuffs. On Facebook, comments ranged from “that kid needs a whupping” to “what kind of crazy racist monsters call the cops on a third-grader?” I didn’t comment. I was too busy freaking out. My boy could be next.