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Parents want kids to grow up polite, responsible, and respectful. And when they misbehave, our first instinct is usually to punish, maybe a scolding, a timeout, or taking away a favorite toy. We think ...

What you need to know: Common practices used on children—such as caning, pinching, kicking, slapping, yelling, verbal insults, or shaming—are often mistaken for discipline, but they are forms of ...

Educators are faced with situations requiring disciplinary measures daily. No one method of discipline can serve as a blanket cure for all scenarios. In balance with modern discipline practices, ...

A NUMBER of circumstances have served to arouse in the educated part of our American people an interest in the discipline of its colleges and universities. In England questions of this sort do not ...

This report comes at a time when our nation and our species face profound challenges. Ensuring adequate food, water, energy, and mineral resources to support a growing human population competes with ...

Kids seem to be worse behaved than ever. I volunteer at my daughter’s school, and so many kids are rude to adults and hateful toward each other. In public, kids are the same way even if their parents ...

The arrest of a once-popular video blogger who advocated tough-love parenting and her business associate in southwestern Utah has revitalized conversations about when discipline becomes child abuse or ...