Your Parenting Matters

Taking ‘time for training’ means that you will purposely and consistently work on a particular problem area until you achieve results. One of the great things that make working with children easy once you know the ‘code’ is that kids do what works. Adults are different. They will continue to do what doesn’t work for [...]

Intelligence and Emotional Maturity
You are the major influence in your child’s life until she starts school. How you interact with her, stimulate her and provide her with opportunities to learn about her environment will establish the way she views and makes her way in the world.
Parents are bombarded with tools to make their children smarter. [...]

I will go out on a limb here and say that I do not think punishment is ever necessary to correct misbehavior. That being said, it doesn’t mean there should not be consequences when a child makes a mistake or breaks the rules.
Punishment may seem to work, but if it really did you would not [...]