It can be frustrating when your child doesn’t listen or misbehaves. As a parent, you ask yourself, what is the best way to discipline my child? John Lantos, MD, Director of the Children’s Mercy Pediatric Bioethics Center, and Edward R. Christophersen, Ph.D., ABPP, FAAP, clinical psychologist with the Children’s Mercy, discuss alternatives to spanking and positive ways to discipline a child.