Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If your child is misbehaving, experts recommend swapping threats or bribery for positive reinforcement. If your child is riding ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – It’s Parenting Connection Tuesday and 6 News is here for you with tips, strategies, and helpful reminders from local child development experts on how we can be better parents ...

Some of the most common tools parents and teachers use for managing children’s behaviors are rewards and punishments. While these methods tend to lose effectiveness as a child ages, there are times ...

My new counseling client, Sara, tearfully said to me, "My mind is spinning. My mother keeps telling me I'm bribing Kim, my nine-year-old daughter. I tried looking this up, and it seems that a reward ...

Source: "Stay a child while you can be a child" by Rachel Samanyi / Flickr CC by 2.0 As a parent, you want your child to behave in certain ways – smart, fun, polite, careful. Sometimes, they do, but ...

Corporal punishment, including spanking, is legal in 17 states. (Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images) A common form of punishment many parents use to discipline their children is spanking. By the time a ...

(CNN) — If your child is riding the line between naughty and nice this holiday season, it may be tempting to use the impending threat of Santa withholding gifts as leverage to curb bad behavior. One ...