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Study Shows Impact of Parental Control Over Their Children A study conducted by a team of researchers at University College London has led to what they claim is a correlation between controlling behavior of parents and emotional well-being problems for the child later in life.	Harsh Parenting Strategies Undermine Learning Parents who want their middle school kids to succeed should opt for creating a home environment that stimulates learning because it could result in higher literacy and math achievement in high school, according to University of Michigan... read more
Why Teenagers Are The Worst "Adolescents today face temptations that teens of earlier eras, not to mention primates or rodents, couldn’t have dreamed of. In a sense, they live in a world in which all the water bottles are spiked.	What does the research say about the development of bullying in early childhood? "Bullying can pose a serious threat to children’s immediate and long-term health and well-being, and can have profound impacts on all children involved in bullying behaviors, whether as the one bullying others, the one being bullied, or the one... read more
How to Say No Positively - 18 Strategies "“No” is a power-packed word, quick on the lips, easy to say. Your child will hear you use this word often, and you will hear it from your child as well.	To spank, or not to spank? I recently came across a social media post that opened with the following phrase: "Have to laugh at people who are against spanking." The post stated that spanking leads to a child learning respect and boundaries with the absence of any trust... read more
Give your child what school cannot -- rest for the brain -- and free them to grow into their own Becoming mature is not inevitable. Not all children enter the adult world able to hold on to themselves while, at the same time, mix with others.	Parenting Without Power Struggles teleseminar - A close to the book We are ending our discussion in API Reads (API's online book club) of the book "Parenting Without Power Struggles" by Susan Stiffelman this August. It is a very insightful book to help you in your journey of positive discipline.
Come join us in API's online book club We are finishing up reading the book titled... read more	Parenting without punishment in a punishing world I will admit it. I'm a bit of a control freak. Actually, I need a lot of control, because I am a "Type-A," "Judgement," "Gold color" or whatever those personality tests use to describe me.

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