Author Alfie Kohn believes that most traditional methods meant to change children’s bad behavior are about parental control and conditional love. With the support of extensive research, he suggests that youngsters are hurt by th...

Alfie Kohn's landmark challenge to carrot-and-stick psychology, featuring updated reflections and research in a major new afterword by the author  Our basic strategy for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can b...

Drawing from hundreds of studies in half a dozen fields, The Brighter Side of Human Nature makes a powerful case that caring and generosity are just as natural as selfishness and aggression. This lively refutation of cynical assumptio...

A prominent and esteemed critic challenges widely held beliefs about children and parenting, revealing that underlying each myth is a deeply conservative ideology that is, ironically, often adopted by liberal parents.Somehow a set of ...