Behaviour & Discipline

Handle challenging behaviours with practical, compassionate strategies. Learn discipline approaches that teach rather than punish, building respect and understanding.

B.F. Skinner's Behavioural Theory

Parents have long known that children respond to a system of rewards and punishments. While to say that this is a simplification of the theories of famed Ame...

Behavioural Disorders in Children

All children engage in bad behaviour every now and then but some children exhibit highly challenging behaviours that are consistently inappropriate for their...

Child Temper Tantrums

It can range from a crying jag to a screaming fit but a child’s temper tantrum is never nice – not for the child and not for the witnesses. Unfortunately...

Chores for Children

Many parents require their children to complete household chores. Not only are these chores an effective means of teaching children discipline and responsibi...

Common Behavioural Problems in Children

Many new parents don’t believe it but that angelic infant that they have just brought home will undoubtedly exhibit one or more common behavioural problems...

Discipline Outside The Home

How a parent chooses to discipline a child is a highly personal decision. In fact discipline can be very controversial and bring even the best of friends int...

Disciplining Children

Disciplining children can be a parent’s worst nightmare. No one enjoys having to tell children that they are acting inappropriately but on occasion it does...

Disciplining Young Children

Disciplining young children is about helping them learn, grow and better themselves. This is often forgotten in the heat of the moment, but it is this emphas...

Reinforcing Good Behaviour

Reinforcing good behaviour also known as positive reinforcement, works as it serves the dual purpose of eliminating bad behaviours and giving children the co...

Rewarding Good Behaviour

Rewarding good behaviour can become a risky business for many parents. All sorts of questions can pop up once they consider rewarding their child’s good be...

The Effects of Punishment on Children

Punishment is anything that reduces the frequency of unwanted behaviours. In theory, punishment should suppress inappropriate behaviours totally, but this is...

'The Naughty Step' as a Discipline Technique

The Naughty Step is a discipline technique, in which parents require children who are behaving inappropriately to sit on a certain step for a designated peri...

The 'Terrible Twos'

The phrase alone can make new parents quake in their boots: the ‘terrible twos’. No doubt everyone has told you about it – how your child will go from...

'Time Out' as a Discipline Technique

Time Out is a discipline technique that takes children away from the activities which are causing conflict and gives them the time and space that they may ne...