Your child won't listen. You've tried nagging, scolding, disciplining, but nothing works. So what are you doing wrong? Well, maybe it's time to use another discipline tactic. Experts say the most effective approach is to come up with discipline that is directly related to your child's misbehavior, so he can learn from his mistakes. Here's how:

Hand out discipline that is related to the offence.

If your child doodles on the wall, banning TV won't improve his behavior. Instead, having him scrub off his artwork will work as a more effective deterrent. That's because when you dole out punishments that are related to the offence, your child can make a connection between his bad behavior and the consequence, and this discourages him from doing it again. (Now you know why scolding doesn't work on your kid.)