How to Avoid Yelling at Your Child - - Step #: Don't yell, at least as much as possible. Research finds that constant yelling at an early age can lead to prolonged shouting matches when your kid becomes a teenage. -Focus on engaging in a calm dialogue. Yelling shuts down all forms of communication between you and the child, and often prevents lessons from being be learned through discipline. And here's the Dad Joke of the Day - Why didn't the melons get married? Because they Cantaloupe.