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Parenting

The Science of Positive Discipline

"Positive discipline" sounds like a marketing phrase, but it rests on roughly forty years of developmental neuroscience. The short version: young chil...

5 min read

Parenting

How to Set Limits Without Punishment

"No-punishment parenting" gets a bad rap, mostly from people picturing a 4-year-old running the household while a glassy-eyed parent narrates feelings...

7 min read

Family Life

Managing Conflicts Between Children at Home

Research on sibling relationships finds that siblings between the ages of two and four have a conflict roughly every 17 minutes on average. That numbe...

6 min read

Emotions

How to Respond to Tantrums Without Punishment

The pull to punish a screaming toddler is real — to send them to their room, to threaten lost screen time, to raise your voice over theirs. It feels l...

3 min read

Emotions

Toddler Tantrums: Why They Happen and What Actually Helps

The supermarket scene is universal: a toddler who was perfectly fine 30 seconds ago is now lying on the floor, screaming at a volume that seems physic...

6 min read