Discipline

Learn why discipline is important to your child's development, find out which tactics work best, and determine your discipline style.

Discipline Basics and Strategies
Find helpful strategies for calling a halt to bad behavior.
Essential Rules of Parenting: Discipline Do's and Dont's
The Twelve Disciplinary Elements
Choose Appropriate Consequences for Misbehavior
Seven Ways to Discipline Effectively
Be Reasonable, Gentle, and Firm
The Three Times Rule
Discipline: Keep a United Front
Ain't Misbehavin': Discipline Tactics That Work
The Basics of Discipline
"Counting Out": An Easy Technique to Reduce Bad Behavior
Effective Punishment
Good Kids, Bad Behavior: Age-Specific Tips
How to Be More Consistent with Your Children
How to Punish Without Punishing Yourself
Parenting from the Same Page
Solutions to Parents' Top Discipline Problems
Ten Questions to Ask Before You Punish
Using Punishments Effectively
Your One-Year-Old: Beginning Discipline
Disciplining Your Toddler
Should Toddlers Ever Be Punished?
Disciplinary Techniques That Work for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Disciplining Your Toddler: Put the Brakes on Aggression
Rewards, Punishments, and Food
Discipline How-To's
Learn what to do in different disciplining situations.
Avoiding Arguments and Power Struggles with Your Kids
Disciplining Other People's Kids
Effective and Ineffective Use of Incentives
Handling Sibling Rivalry
How to Handle Back Talk
How to Use Consequences
Seven Ways to Avoid Whines in Lines
The Shame Game
Strengthening Good Behaviors and Reducing Bad Behaviors
When Kids Are Punished by Rewards
Dealing with Whining, Profanity, and Sass
Dealing with Aggressive and Nasty Behavior in Your Child
Toddlers Saying "No"
Punishment and Toddlers: What Doesn't Work
Tackling Tantrums, Biting, Hair Pulling, and More
The Do's and Don'ts of Dealing with Tantrums
Airing Your Dirty Laundry: Handling Public Tantrums
Taming Toddler Tantrums
Discipline Don'ts
Tips on what not to do. Learn about ineffective disciplining techniques.
Six Dubious Discipline Techniques
Why Spanking Is a Bad Idea
Eight Destructive Discipline Techniques
Don't Overuse the Word "No"
To Spank or Not to Spank?
Establishing Boundaries
Learn how to set clear and effective limits for your children.
Communicate Effective and Reasonable Limits to Your Kids
Make the Limits Totally Clear to Your Kids
Change Limits as Your Child Grows
Setting Limits for Your Baby
Time-Outs
Learn how to use time-out techniques to correct bad behavior.
Correcting Misbehavior with Time-Out
A Guide to Time-Outs
Time-Out Guidelines
When a Child Refuses to Go to Time-Out
Disciplining Teenagers
Find tips on how to teach your teenager the consequences of their actions.
Discipline and Your Teenager
Setting Rules / Expectations and Consequences for Your Teen
Techniques to Set Rules and Consequences for Your Teen
Your Teen Daughter: Is More Discipline the Answer?
Punishing and Grounding Your Teen Daughter
Strategies for Stepparents
Discipline can be tricky for a stepparent. Learn how to avoid overstepping your boundaries.
Stepparenting: How to Discipline
Stepparenting: Determining Who's the Boss
Stepparenting: Punishment May Differ in Each Parent's House
Twelve Mistakes to Avoid in Stepparenting
Twelve Secrets for Successful Stepparenting
Stepfamily Discipline Issues
More on Stepparenting
Expert Advice
Find expert answers to parents' questions about discipline.
Will spanking prepare kids for the real world?
My husband and I disagree on how to discipline our three kids.
How do I get my husband to stop yelling at our two preschoolers?
How do I punish my daughter for stealing from her sister?
How do I discipline my child without hurting his self-esteem?
My six-year-old is becoming a discipline problem at school.
We're having discipline problems with our two-and-a-half-year-old.
Ideas from Parents
See what discipline advice other parents have to offer.
Discipline and Kids
Dealing with Temper Tantrums
Kids' Transitions
Limiting TV Time
Quizzes
Get the scoop on your discipline style.
What's Your Discipline Style?
Are You a Sergeant Major or Major Softy?
Determine Your Discipline Style

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