A behavior chart is a type of reward system for keeping track of a kid's actions and choices that you like. It is one way to reinforce the good behavior a child displays and encourage patterns that ...

I’m pleased to publish this guest post by my colleague Heather Bleakley Chang, who served 11 years as a K-2 teacher and school leader in Philadelphia, and now supports schools as a consultant ...

Sleep habits. Fertility. Steps per day. Water consumption. There’s a tracker for that—all of that. So it probably shouldn’t have surprised me to read Dr. Catherine Pearlman’s advice for struggling ...

After working with thousands of families over my years as a family psychologist, I’ve found that one of the most common predicaments parents face is how to get kids to do what they’re asked. And one ...

My daughter started fifth grade this month with a wonderful new teacher and, to my delight, the absence of one of the most annoyingly ubiquitous “tools” in modern classrooms today: the behavior chart.

I have tried a chore chart. Cutely decorated and color-coded. Tiny adorable clothespins with chores named in tiny adorable block letters on their sides. Ribbons for those clothespins to hang from.

In many elementary schools, it's easy to know who the class clown is, because on a thermometer cutout on the wall, a clothespin with their name is clipped to the red zone. Likewise, it’s easy to see ...