3 Reasons Kids Are Misbehaving More—and What Parents Can Do About It

Independent Play:

The results of her research are compiled in a book titled The Good News About Bad Behavior. Lewis asserts that parents and teachers have been exerting too much control over children, and as a result, they haven’t learned self-discipline. Children misbehave not because they want to, but because no one has taught them the skills they need to control themselves in the first place. 

Lewis gives three reasons for this crisis: 

1) A Decline in Independent Play

Playtime looks a lot different now than it used to. As education reporter Cory Turner observes: