The Business Insider – Chris Weller
“Dr. Ross Greene would rather parents and teachers try to understand their misbehaving children than punish them. Greene, a clinical child psychologist and associate professor at Virginia Tech, first presented that idea in his 1998 book “The Explosive Child,” in which he debuted a program he calls Collaborative & Proactive Solutions. Today, CPS is poised to revolutionize the way American society treats its behaviorally challenging youngsters. The conventional model of using carrots and sticks to earn kids’ cooperation is inherently flawed, Greene says. According to Greene, kids who act out, sometimes violently, do so because that’s how their brains are wired. They don’t necessarily want to misbehave; they just can’t help it.”(more)