Welcome to today’s online chat about the behavior and discipline of prekindergarten children. This is a hot topic in education circles and one with implications that go far beyond the preschool years.

Whether it's basics like treating others with kindness or skills like patience, the smartest parents make sure to teach their ...

In classrooms across the country, students are mastering their ABCs, solving equations, and diving into science. But one essential life skill–behavior–is not in the lesson plan. For too long, ...

Two-thirds of state-school teachers (66%) in England say pupil behaviour has a negative impact on learning in lessons either regularly or all the time, a poll shows. Just 8% said it “rarely” or “never ...

‘Sit still.’ ‘Don’t do that.’ ‘Don’t go over there.’ If you’re a parent, you’ve probably said these words before. What you do when your child is not acting up may be the first step to promoting good ...

As a child psychologist who specializes in helping kids with challenging behavior, I hear how often we parents take the blame for our kids’ behavior, whether the behavior happens at home, at school or ...

A behavior chart is a type of reward system for keeping track of a kid's actions and choices that you like. It is one way to reinforce the good behavior a child displays and encourage patterns that ...

Parents need to be aware and conscious of their behavior which can be toxic and impact their kids. Toxic Behaviors of Parents: * Critical treatment: When a parent constantly criticizes, over-corrects, ...

If seeing gentle parenting everywhere has been giving you the ick, don’t worry. A new trend is on the rise – ‘F–k Around and Find Out.” Known in 2025 as FAFO on social media, the parenting style ...

Kids are learning that personal attacks, evasion, and deception are common in politics today. Those lessons won’t serve them ...