New University of Virginia research is pinpointing when young children begin recognizing what they believe to be unfair treatment in the classroom. Findings from associate professor Amrisha Vaish's ...

While many of our parents and grandparents were avid “reward-punishment” users, modern research suggests that this kind of parenting style can often craft a transactional relationship. Punishments ...

While punishment and discipline are words that seem to conjure up ideas of military-type behavioral modification, it is important to realize that correcting your children is less about securing their ...

Editor’s note: John Rosemond writes a nationally syndicated column that appears in The World-Herald. Q: My 21-month-old has started hitting. Whenever he hits his 4-year-old sister, I put him in his ...

Did you experience corporal punishment as a child? Forty years ago only one country had banned it. Now there are 62. Why? Because we know the long-term negative effects for kids, families, and society ...

As many of you may have seen while driving on Guam's roadways, a new billboard has been put up by the Attorney General Doug Moylan’s office Thursday that appears to promote spanking as a form of ...

"I recently read a quote from a Finnish education minister: "There's no word for accountability in Finnish... Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted." — ...