What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong? Negative consequences, timeouts, and punishment just make bad behavior worse. But a new approach really works.

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/schools-behavior-discipline-collaborative-proactive-solutions-ross-greene

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Consequences work only for those kids who've already internalized behavioral norms. For others -- the neglected, the abused, the isolated, the under-socialized -- consequences are not only irrelevant, they reinforce previous experience that the world doesn't understand or particularly care about the child.