Modern parenting treats punishment like it's borderline abusive. We’re told that timeouts and lost privileges are traumatic, ...

Source: Dejan Dundjerski/Shutterstock In my work with highly oppositional children and teens, I often hear parents say that consequences haven’t worked. From their perspective, this is true. Most ...

As the parenting trends drift further away from punishments and hard discipline, there is still a conflict among parenting communities—and maybe even within your own household—over how to get kids to ...

Many adults believe in punishment, whether it’s timeouts, spanking, or loss of privileges. “Kids need consequences for bad behavior,” parents often tell me. Young children do need us to pay attention ...

At a recent parenting class several mothers and fathers were discussing how to stay consistent with a consequence or plan of action once it's evident that it isn't meeting your original intention.

If there are two things kids know about, it's crime -- and punishment. Crime: The 4-year-old who hurls Legos at his little sister. Punishment: Time out. Crime: The 10-year-old who says she studied for ...

Navigating the school system as a first-time parent is a wild ride. You have to accept that discipline is part of the package, and a missed playtime for a playground scuffle seems perfectly fair.

Operant conditioning, sometimes called instrumental conditioning or Skinnerian conditioning, is a method of learning that uses rewards and punishment to modify behavior. Through operant conditioning, ...