Psychology Today

The ABCs of Child Behavior

Source: "Stay a child while you can be a child" by Rachel Samanyi / Flickr CC by 2.0 As a parent, you want your child to behave in certain ways – smart, fun, polite, careful. Sometimes, they do, but ...
Psychology Today

Decode the Message in Your Child's Behavior

This post was written by Ellen B. Luborsky, Ph.D. This post is part of a series on Parenting During COVID. Part 2 is here. It comes with the territory. Children express themselves through the language ...
Newsweek

School Kids Get Choice of Reward for Good Behavior, Response Stuns Teacher

A third-grade teacher was left beaming after her pupils made the most heartwarming of picks for a whole class reward. Maren Hanson told Newsweek: "They make questionable choices, yes. They might be ...
Observer-Reporter

Rewarding good behavior

Students at Washington Park Elementary School are receiving rewards for positive behavior and can turn those rewards into prizes. The school recently opened Caleb’s Corner Store, a student-run shop ...
NBC New York

What ‘good parents' who raise confident, well-adjusted kids always do, from an Ivy League-trained child psychologist: ‘That's No. 1'

There's no such thing as a perfect mom or dad — but most "good parents" embrace two specific mindsets to raise confident, well-adjusted kids, says child psychologist Becky Kennedy. First, they focus ...
Duluth News Tribune

Claudia Myers column: Oh, what a good boy am I

When you have been very, very good, do you reward yourself? Just a little something. It can be edible, collectible or memorable. You know, “I’ve been right on schedule today, gotten my whole ‘to-do’ ...