NFL running back Adrian Peterson’s recent arrest for allegedly abusing his four-year-old son has once again sparked the debate over whether spanking is an appropriate form of discipline. Though some ...

Parents of anxious kids are very reluctant to correct their children—it makes them anxious—and can we really blame them? Parents don’t, as a general rule, like to upset their children, and since ...

A four-year-old is playing with a toy car when his mother tells him it is time to stop playing and come to the table for dinner. The boy initially refuses. The mother crouches down, looks him in the ...