Dealing with Sibling Rivalry

If you have more than one child, or is even just pregnant with a second child, you will know what sibling rivalry is.  Sibling rivalry is the age old jealousy and fighting between brothers and sisters.  In today’s age with reconstituted families – with half and stepbrothers or sisters – we can even notice more [...]

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Using Time Out to Discipline Your Child

Since Super Nanny and Nanny 911 been introduced into our households on television, most parents with young children started using time-out as a discipline strategy in their houses.  Unfortunately most parents tend to give up after a while and things go back to the way it was before.  I do believe that time-out [...]

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Using Positive Reinforcement in Disciplining Your Children

The behaviorists introduced the term of reinforment with Pavlov’s dog reacting in the desired way, drooling, when a bell was rang before receiving his meal. A stimulus was presented, the ringing of the bell when presenting his food, which led to the desired response of the dog drooling.  Eventually the dog would start to drool [...]

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The Evolution of Discipline Strategies

The methods of disciplining children have changed considerably over the decades. Severe beatings used to be the norm in Ancient Greece, and became common during the nineteenth century in Europe, America and South Africa.  In order to control the children more effectively, they were scared through ghost stories and other scary figures, for example the [...]

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