One of the most important challenges facing parents today is how to deal with child misbehavior. If parents get this wrong, they could literally cause their child to form harmful lifelong habits. But, if done well, the way parents deal with child misbehavior may help their child not only stop misbehaving, but also develop healthy habits and good social skills. This course begins by considering how discipline relates to your goals in raising a child. It continues by offering a preliminary definition of discipline as caregiver behaviors that are intended to get children to stop misbehaving. It then describes different disciplinary practices, such as developmental, reactive and proactive discipline, and how best to use them to achieve your goals as a parent. This includes a detailed discussion of punishment. The course then considers how to nurture self-discipline in children, that is, the capacity to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, for oneself and others, even when you don't feel like it. It concludes with some ideas about when to get others involved in disciplining a child.

The course comes with a 53 page workbook that includes a pretest, additional explanations and exercises, and a post-test, to monitor your progress.