Child Development & Safety: Education, Behavior & Nutrition

Child development requires a balance of early childhood education, effective disciplinary techniques, and structured nutritional planning for growth milestones.

Kids and Discipline

Creative Ways to Discipline a 7 Year Old

Published Jun,13 2017 | By Michele Norfleet

When kids enter school, they may become more independent and more difficult to discipline as a result of outside influences. Oftentimes, the more demanding you become while trying to maintain control, the more resistant they seem to become.

Michele Norfleet is a freelance writer who writes on travel, home and garden and education topics. She has coauthored a handbook for teachers on school-wide discipline and has contributed tips for special-needs students in the basal curriculum for RCL Benziger. Norfleet holds a master's degree from Southern Illinois University and has experience as a special-needs teacher and speech pathologist.