Almost everybody still yells at their kids to _ 1 _ them sometimes, even the parents who know it doesn t work. Yelling may be the most _ 2 _ parental stupidity around today.
Households with regular _ 3 _ incidents tend to have children with lower _ 4 _ 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.
Yelling doesn't make you look _ 5 _. It makes you look out of control to your kids. It makes you look weak. Yelling is the _ 6 _ of a person who doesn't know what else to do.
But most parents find it hard to _ 7 _ how to get through the day without yelling. The new research on yelling presents parents with twin problems: What do I do instead? And how do I stop? We re now talking about yelling as a form of correction. Yelling for correction is _ 8 _ as a tool and merely imprints the habit of yelling onto the children. We yell at our kids over the same stuff every day, and we yell at them some more because the original yelling doesn't work.
The mere knowledge that yelling is bad, in itself, won't help, said Alan Kazdin, a professor of psychology and child psychiatry at Yale. Yelling is not a strategy it's a _ 9 _. If the goal of the parent is to change something in the child or develop a _ 10 _ habit in the child, yelling is not the way to do that.
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A ) imagine B ) authoritative C ) ineffective D ) occasionally E ) expectation F ) widespread G ) essentially H ) manage I ) discipline J ) release K ) response L ) positive M ) self-esteem N ) shouting O ) relieve
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