Don't use TV as a baby-sitter. Whenever possible, sit and watch programs together and talk about what you've viewing. Use discipline as an opportunity to teach. Children need limits and consistent adult supervision. Studies reveal that the way adults provide discipline is crucial to a child's later development.
Many approaches work, as long as they're intended to help and teach, rather than punish.
Never hit or shake a child. The only things a child learns from physical discipline are fear, humiliation and rage. Recognize that each child is unique. Children grow at different rates. Their ideas and feelings about themselves reflect, in large measure, their parents' and care-givers' attitudes toward them.