Even someone who fact checks parenting experts and parenting advice needs to be fact checked once in a while. I was wrong. I admit it. I made a hasty comment about the odds of a parenting expert thoughtfully and readily answering my question about the three praises for every one reprimand. For those of you who wasted two hours watching the family-friendly movie Parental …
While I’m on a positive roll here, check out Smarter Ways to Discipline Children, a recent article over at the Wall Street Journal about the power of so-called positive discipline. Positive Discipline? A misnomer of sorts. It isn’t so much about discipline in the sense of on-the-spot punishment or stopping bad behavior as it happens but …
So here’s an intriguing study showing children with ADHD have slower brain development than their peers. By about three years. Using brain scans, researchers affiiliated with the National Institute of Mental Health pinpointed the areas of the brain associated with the primary symptoms of ADHD (e.g., lack of concentration, impulsive …
Marital problems often make for some troubling child behavior – bullying, shoplifting, running away. A good deal of research links parents’ marital conflict to child conduct disorder, psycho-jargon for all that bad behavior, you know, the neighborhood deviant who set your mailbox on fire. No surprise, right? Kid hears all …