by James Lehman, MSW

I think a lot of parents feel it’s important to explain their reasoning to their children in an attempt to get them to understand. Realize that along the way, wanting your child to understand can easily shift into wanting their approval, or their acceptance of your reasons. When this happens, parents can get stuck in a dynamic where they’re over-explaining thin gs to their children. I personally think that once you’ve given your child a reasonable amount of input, any further explanation defeats the purpose. Read more »

Nothing will work if you don’t put the parenting skills you learned into practice. So, stop being a theorist and get practical to deal with disrespectful behavior. Here are some brief tips: Read more »

If you have a disrespectful kid at home, your patience are put to a test. Disrespectful kid shows behavior problems such as raising his voice, refuses to answer despite hearing you, shows persistent anger on you, walks away during confrontation or shows disrespectful gestures.

If we look into age group, different kid may show behave differently although you should tackle them similarly. Read more »

Is your kid’s behavioral problem escalating? Is he oppositional defiant, obnoxious, abusive, lying, disrespectful, back talking or misbehaving? Do you believe parents need to equip themselves with the right parenting skills to manage difficult kids? Read more »

by Dr. Joan Simeo Munson

The word “spoiled” is a loaded term, one that has many levels of meaning for us as parents. You may envision a nagging in-law saying your children are “spoiled,” you may remember a kindly grandparent “spoiling” you as a young child, or an unruly, “spoiled” kid you see in the grocery store who throws a fit to get what he wants. In this article, I am defining “spoiled” as any situation in which a child is in control and a parent is not. Read more »

You know how it’s like to live with an Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) more than any other parents. He is argumentative, abusive, blames, does not listen and often acts out. If you are often frustrated in raising an oppositional defiant disorder child, all you need is an ideal method to treat the disorder. You should not do nothing and wait for your child to outgrow the condition because a he is highly likely to turn into an oppositional defiant teenager later. Read more »

by James Lehman, MSW

Even before you become a parent, you start forming ideas about how you’ll raise your child. You get advice about it from all sides—your own parents and family, your friends, and books by so-called experts tell you “the rules” of good parenting. But most people soon find out that some of these techniques are simply fads—and many of them don’t work at all. Read on to see what James Lehman thinks are the top five most ineffective parenting concepts out there. Read more »

We all know that you had to work. You sent your kid to his grandparents place on weekdays and became a weekend parent. Your kid got sweets, soda and chips as if granny owns the mart. He climbed on the sofa with his shoes on. He gets to watch Nickelodeon and played Nintendo till he drops. He never had to keep any toys because dear granny will do it all for him.

Worst of all, he started to misbehave. He called names, talked rudely, destroyed things on purpose, became disrespectful and you even suspected him lying. Read more »