Does timeout work or is it hurting your kid? PhD level behavior scientists Rick Kubina and Madeline Jürgensen break down one of the most common (and most misused) discipline tools parents reach for. You’ll learn what timeout really is, why it’s so easy to overuse, which behaviors it’s meant for, and five simple ways to make it work. Whether you use timeout every day or never, this episode will help you make your own call and ask better questions about how it’s used at school or daycare. Listen or be in an information timeout.

Your kid gets pushed at the park. Or your kid is the one doing the pushing. Either way, the first instinct is to decide someone is the aggressor and someone is the victim, and that's where it goes wrong.

Rick and Madeline walk through what's actually happening when toddlers hit, push, and bite. The four payoffs driving almost every one of those behaviors, the five questions that tell you more than "who started it" ever will, and why a label you hand a two year old can stick to them for years.

Meta just agreed to an $18 billion settlement with 29 states over claims that Instagram and Facebook were built to hook kids. Yes, they are actively trying to addict your kids. So what exactly did they agree to change, and what does it tell us about how these apps work on our kids? Rick and Madeline break down the settlement, from the new two-hour daily limit and overnight lockout to hidden like counts and the end of the default algorithmic feed. Then they translate it all through a behavior science lens and describe what these companies are doing to get your kids addicted.