Child Behavior & Discipline

The inverse power of praise

What do we make of a boy like Thomas?

Thomas (his middle name) is a fifth-grader at the highly c...

Despite marketing claims, parents who want to give their infants a boost in learning language probably should limit the amount o...

Parents must rediscover the N-word or risk raising confused children with no self-control

No. One of the shortest, easiest, mo...

In the age of Myspace and YouTube and Google Earth, the space between East and West seems to shrink. But in the area of self-per...

A combination of indulgent parents and ever more demanding children is producing a generation of ill-mannered brats. And we are ...

Too often, we assign the responsibility for the social and academic prospects of our children exclusively to our school system,...