PSYCHOLOGIST SAYS KIDS NEED TO BE BAD.(Living)

Byline: Scripps Howard News Service

The worst thing you can do for your children may be to teach them to be unfailingly, chronically good.

So says Peter Williamson, the child and adolescent psychologist who wrote "Good Kids, Bad Behavior: Helping Children Learn Self- Discipline" (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, $10.)

Williamson says he wrote the book to help parents gain a more positive attitude toward normal childhood misbehavior and their own roles as disciplinarians. The book also offers many tips about effective discipline, from giving children enough structure and routine to granting privileges as rewards to how parental emotions affect children. …