Don’t ‘Tell Off’ Your Kids, Say Experts – Here’s What You Should Do Instead

If your child is doing something “naughty”, often no response is needed at the end of it because the misbehaviour is over already, says Janis-Norton. “You may want to respond even though it’s over, to minimise the likelihood of it happening again, but one of the best ways to do that, however counterintuitive it may seem, is to praise the child for the fact that they’ve stopped,” she argues.