Child Behavior & Discipline

Australia is planning to restrict TV for toddlers, because of adverse effects on the brain. How scared should we be?

Get out o...

Here’s one more take on Dr. Walter Mischel’s famous marshmallow study, which I analyzed last Friday. If you recall, one third of...

Excellence is grown, not born, a New York Times best-selling author told members of the Evanston school community on Friday. 

A new study links bullying behavior by adolescents to the perception they are not treated fairly by their parents.

How are bul...

If you sit that close to the TV, you're going to go blind.

If you don't clean your ears, potatoes will grow in them.

If you...

Smacking children stunts their intelligence, research suggests.

Youngsters kept in line through slaps and spanks have IQs...