
If the kids are out of control - and everything you do seems to make matters worse - it's time to change the dynamic. Dr. Beth Grosshans' five-step program teaches how to become a more effective parent and help children feel safer, be happier, and behave more appropriately.

Magazines such as Time and Newsweek have described parents as living in "mayhem" and "madness" with their out-of-control, undisciplined children. How did our families get to this state? To child psychologist Dr. Beth A. Grosshans, a half-century of parenting advice-with its time-outs-is...