It's tempting to focus on correcting your child's unwanted behaviors, but positive reinforcement – rewarding appropriate behaviors – may be more effective.

This is smart parenting. An early bedtime or a rigorous chore chart aren’t instant guarantees for success, but they’re proven ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC/AP) - While some kids have already returned to classrooms, many students will go back to school in the coming weeks. And with that comes a return to a "normal" bedtime routine.

When my son was expelled at 4 for being "difficult," I thought I failed him as a mom. He just needed a different school environment.

As a child psychologist who specializes in helping kids with challenging behavior, I hear how often we parents take the blame for our kids’ behavior, whether the behavior happens at home, at ...

These same kids who I know now as adults are all mature, stable, and successful. Sometimes it’s not how much you know, it’s who you are and how you act. Schools shouldn’t ignore that reality.

Those kids also did better in school and had fewer social and emotional problems. More about the study Researchers followed the same 422 U.S. children at ages 2, 5 and 10 over an 8-year period.

“If a parent is dysregulated, their child will certainly learn this inappropriate behavior,” says Krawiec, whose PMTO techniques are especially useful in dealing with kids who have special needs.

It's not uncommon for kids to display behavior changes and backsliding during big transitions — whether it's a move to a new town, the birth of a sibling or, now, a pandemic that's completely ...