Three Options for When Your Child or Teen Breaks the Rules

Psychology Today | 21.08.2026 22:07
A colleague wrote to me about one of my most recent blog posts. In the post, I talked about the need for punishment and/or consequences when children or teens break a rule or behave in a way that the parents have told them not to. My colleague objected to my suggestion that punishment may be an option. He said, “I prefer consequences. Punishment for me evokes power.”