Fifty-nine 6- to 9-year-old children evaluated three discipline strategies (reasoning, verbal power assertion, acknowledgment of feelings), and mothers were asked to predict their children's evaluations. Maternal knowledge scores were derived. Mothers were less accurate at predicting their children's perceptions of discipline when the misdeed in…

Results from 2 experiments indicated that 8-to 10-year-old children can be taught to take over the punishing role of an external agent and that a training technique involving perceived freedom of self-punishment will generate greater compliance with subsequent requests from the external agent. (Author/JMB)

The results of this study indicate that induction combined with withdrawal of love is no more effective as a punishment technique for the development of at least one aspect of conscience--self-criticism--than withdrawal of material reward. (Authors)

Mothers recorded their children's prosocial behavior and failure to be prosocial, and their own responses to their children's behavior. Helping occurred more frequently than other prosocial behaviors. Children were equally likely to receive acknowledgement, approval, praise and no response for prosocial behavior. (BC)

Two studies that relate to the intergenerational transmission of child discipline practices and techniques are described. The first study attempted to demonstrate that such transmission actually occurs. A sample of 32 Canadian middle-class mothers of 3- to 5-year-olds, and the mothers of these mothers, were asked to rate the frequency with which…