As an autism professional and parent, I am accustomed to having a difference of opinion when it comes to many of the things I believe and practice about autism. The video explained to children that when a parent asks them to do something (i.e., put away toys), they should comply with this request

At this point, I shouldn’t have to list off all the reasons spanking your child doesn’t work. It’s science, it’s proven, and we may as well be revisiting a discussion of whether the world is flat. If the damage it does to children's spirits (not to mention their actual brains) isn’t enough to

  A hairy old hippie of a photojournalist from a rival newspaper once gave me a powerful piece of family planning advice. It was spring 2003, I was working as a reporter, and my wife had just given birth to our first child. After five days at home I returned to the newsroom where my assignment that

When I tell parents that they need to learn to ignore their children, I am often presented with puzzled faces of concern. "What do you mean ignore them?" is often the reply. I will then explain to them that learning to ignore in a very targeted purposeful way can be a valuable tool to change

A child changes everything. As a parent, you start seeing things from a completely different perspective. Whereas you would not have bothered before about cars driving too fast on a suburban street, now you find yourself yelling out, “Slow down, there’s kids in this neighborhood!” Being a parent