"Next to love, a sense of discipline is a parent’s second most important gift to a child.” ~ T. Berry Brazelton, M. D. Parents are often faced with how to deal with a child’s misbehavior. Children are ...

The 2021-2022 school year began full of promise. Students, families, and educators were ready to get back to pre-pandemic learning routines. Almost no one was prepared for how the landscape had ...

Operant conditioning is a procedure for controlling behavior, explored and exploited most notably by B. F. Skinner, followed by many subsequent researchers. It involves shaping the behavior of an ...

Jennifer Mortensen, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science and Melissa Burnham, Professor and Department Chair of Human Development and Family Science, are two of the five authors ...

Debate, disagreement, and discomfort have a productive role to play in the process of learning, and our students generally share our faculty’s sense that classrooms should be a site of vigorous and ...

When Grace Dearborn started her career teaching high school students, she felt confident about how to teach but unprepared for managing behavior in her classroom. During more challenging disciplinary ...

Parents have a responsibility not only to provide for their children but also to teach them the practical and psychological skills they will need to be well-functioning adults. To that end, parents ...

A former professor and education expert named Justin Baeder has admitted that schools need to start rethinking how they choose to approach students with behavioral issues because it's harming the ...

Discipline involves teaching your child ways to behave, follow rules, and learn self-control. Abuse isn’t discipline but rather actions that harm a child. Learn the difference and where to find help.