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 ...

A 34-year-old single mother took to the internet to figure out if the punishment she doled out to her teen daughter was a bit too harsh. After the mom learned that her daughter had been taunting a ...

Modern parenting treats punishment like it's borderline abusive. We’re told that timeouts and lost privileges are traumatic, and that prior to dishing out consequences, we should explain our reasoning ...

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 ...