You might want to nag or scold, but positive reinforcement is more effective.
This story was originally published on Nov. 1, 2019 in NYT Parenting.
As a child psychiatrist, I have spent eons in school studying developmental psychology and human behavior. Learning this, you might assume that I would know all the research on effective parenting techniques and be a perfect parent myself. You would be wrong on both counts.
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