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Setting Limits for Your Children
Setting boundaries and limits around a child's behavior is an important skill for fathers. Learn more about the keys to effectively setting limits for your children.

Effectively Praise Your Child
Parenting experts tell us that it is important to praise your children regularly, and that praise effects behavior patterns more than discipline does. Here are some tips and ideas about effectively praising your child.

Effective Discipline Ideas for Teenagers: Grounding
Finding effective methods for changing the behavior of your children is one of the great challenges of parenting. Learn more about grounding as a disciplinary technique--what works and what doesn't and when grounding is an effective strategy.

"NO" is Not For Children: 3 Principles for Respectful Discipline
An article by Dawn Fry which recommends discipline techniques that are positive and respectful and build a child's feelings of self respect and respect for others.

Behavior Contracting
Looking for a new approach to discipline, and to setting boundaries for your children? Consider the approach by About Fatherhood contributor and family counselor Warren Shepell called Behavior Contracting.

Door Openers verses Door Slammers
A communication skill with examples. Often times we use door slammers when we discipline.

How to Give Effective Consequences for Misbehavior
The purpose of discipline is to teach self-control and self-discipline. Using effective consequences can break the cycle of non-compliance by your child.

Quick Discipline Strategies
About Child Parenting Guide Kimberly Keith shares some effective ideas for dealing with a behavioral problem quickly and effectively.

Discipline Following a Divorce
Divorce can bring out significant emotional and behavioral problems in children, and divorced dads can have a hard time adjusting to those changes. Find ways to address this phenomenon with your children.

Disciplining with Humor
Using humor to effect changes in behavior is a pretty common technique for dads. Check out some recommendations as to how to do this effectively with your children.

Keys to Effective Discipline
This article from the American Academy of Pediatrics offers tips and advice for disciplining children without unnecessary conflict.

Make Lemons Into Lemonade
How to turn discipline from a negative experience to a positive one for both the dad and the child.

Never Give Away the Ice Cream
So often discipline takes on a negative light. This article offers the alternative view--providing incentives for proper behavior.

Responsive Discipline
An online training course from Kansas State University, Responsive Discipline offers insights, tools and advice for fathers in learning to tailor their efforts at discipline to the needs of their children. This is a must-see for a dad who feels he needs help in this area.

Time Out Techniques
For many years, time-out has been an effective disciplinary tool for children and parents. This article offers ten specific techniques for making time-out a more effective tool for modifying behavior.