discipline methods

Mom & Dad

Colorado mom "shames" kids with T-shirt messages

One of the most difficult parts of parenting is discipline. Discipline is simply the act of teaching your child right from wrong,...

Mom & Dad

Master negotiations

If you’ve ever had to get a resistant child to leave a public place without having a complete meltdown or found yourself pulling...

Parenting Tips & Advice

Parenting contract: Negotiating with your kids

Tired of pulling your hair out because your kids constantly abuse their screen time or don't do their chores without you asking five...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Parenting Guru: The benefits of emotion coaching

You can teach your children how to master their frustrations at a very early age, says Kimberley Clayton Blaine, a Los Angeles-based...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Parenting Guru: Are you a mean mom?

Denise Schipani, the mom of two boys, ages 7 and 9, wrote Mean Moms Rule: Why Doing the Hard Stuff Now Creates Good Kids Later...

Parenting Tips & Advice

Mom vs. Dad: The discipline debate

Does this sound familiar: your child does something wrong and you want to punish him, but your spouse disagrees. So who gets to...

Mom & Dad

Evaluating your discipline techniques

A New Year calls for an evaluation of not only your physical health but your emotional health as well. Whether you’re learning new...

Tough Love

Should a parent discipline other people's children?

In this installment of Tough Love, Mama Kat from Mama's Losin' It offers advice of disciplining other people's children.

Child Development & Health

Selling toys on eBay as punishment: Good parenting?

One of the big issues parents grapple with is discipline: Are we being too strict...or not strict enough? One mom decided to sell...

Age by Age

Parenting debates: Spanking

There are parents who firmly believe that spanking is an effective discipline tool, parents who would never, in a million years,...