Reference Desk
- Is My Child On Track?
- Kindergarten Readiness
- Learning To Read
- Types of Schools
- Learning Personalities
- Standards and Testing
- Gifted Children
- The Early Years (3-5)
- The Middle Years (6-12)
- The Teen Years (13-18)
- Parent-School Connection
- Your Parenting Style
- Keeping Your Kids Healthy
- Extracurricular Activities
- Life Skills
- Thinking About College
- Special Needs
Special Needs
Helping Your Child with Aggressive and Defiant Behavior
- Aggression (NYU Child Study Center)
- Aggression: Why it Happens and What to do About it (BabyCenter)
- When Your Child is Aggressive or Scared (Hand in Hand)
- Defiance: Why it Happens and What to do About it (BabyCenter)
- Defiance: Why it Happens and What to do About it (Age 5) (BabyCenter)
- Resistance: What to do About the Endless No's (BabyCenter)
Understanding and Helping Your Child with Conduct and Disorder
- Children and Adolescents with Conduct Disorder (SAMHSA)
- Children and Adolescents with Conduct Disorder (NIMH)
- About Conduct Disorder (NYU Child Study Center)
- Conduct Disorder (University of Florida IFAS Extension)
Parenting a Child with Behavior Problems
- About Discipline - Helping Children Develop Self-Control (NYU Child Study Center)
- Anger: Helping Children Cope With This Complex Emotion (NYU Child Study Center)
- Teaching Your Child Self-Control (Nemours Foundation)
- Why Time-Out Doesn't Work for All Kids and Other Secrets From Temperament-Based Parenting (NYU Child Study Center)
- Being "In Control": The Possible and Impossible in Parenting (Hand in Hand)
- Handling Children's Feelings in Public Places (Hand in Hand)
- Eight Practical Tips for Parents of Young Children with Challenging Behavior
- Survey Finds Nearly All Parents Yell at Their Kids But Harsh Words Are Unnecessary
- I Swore I Would Never Say That! (Hand in Hand)
- Spanking Doesn't Improve Children's Behavior (Nemours Foundation)
How to Make Time-Out Work
- Why Time-Out Doesn't Work for All Kids and Other Secrets From Temperament-Based Parenting
- Time-Outs: How to Make Them Work (2-year-old) (BabyCenter)
- What to do When Time-Outs Don't Work (ages 3-4) (BabyCenter)
Strategies for Taming Temper Tantrums
- Tantrums: Why They Happen and What to do About Them (BabyCenter)
- Temper Tantrums
- Taming Tempers
- Taming Public Temper Tantrums (Hand in Hand)
- Tantrums for Two (Hand in Hand)
- Holidays and Meltdowns - They Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly (Hand in Hand)
Treatment for Children with Behavior Problems
- Systems of Care: Children and Adolescents With Serious Emotional Disturbances (SAMHSA)
- Youth in a Difficult World: Multisystemic Therapy (NIMH)
- One Answer to Teenage Violence (NYU Child Study Center)
Recent Research
- International Adoptees Have Fewer Behavior Problems Than Children Adopted Domestically (Nemours Foundation)
- Behavioral Problems Often Present in Children With Asthma (Nemours Foundation)
