【NYTimes】Why You Should Stop Yelling at Your Kids

It doesn’t make you look authoritative. It makes you look out of control to your kids. It makes you look weak.The use of spanking to discipline children has been in decline for 50 years. But yelling? Almost everybody still yells at their kids sometimes, even the parents who know it doesn’t work. Yelling may be the most widespread parental stupidity around today.Households with regular shouting incidents tend to have children with lower self-esteem and higher rates of depression. A 2014 study in The Journal of Child Development demonstrated that yelling produces results similar to physical punishment in children: increased levels of anxiety, stress and depression along with an increase in behavioral problems.How many times in your parenting life have you thought to yourself, after yelling at your kids, “Well, that was a good decision...”?It doesn’t make you look authorita ………………………………