After other communication and correction have been unconvincing, parents may sometimes choose to use an object lesson to teach what repeated words have failed to convey to get an adolescent to ...

Benjamin Franklin once commented, “A good example is the best sermon.” Indeed, perhaps the greatest method to convey a message is by object lesson. This notion may help us understand a very ...

If you read enough “Object Lessons” books, you’ll fill your head with plenty of trivia to amaze and annoy your friends and loved ones — caution recommended on pontificating on the objects ...

Everyone knows what bread is, and everyone knows what toast is. And everyone knows that the first can be transformed into the second. Less clear: when, exactly, does the transformation take place ...

Giving an object lesson, the parent acts out wrongdoing that the adolescent has been doing to them with the hope the teenager will feel what that treatment is like and stop it.