People don’t usually equate Navy SEAL training with children. It’s also unlikely that people think parents should take the advice of a Navy SEAL on child-rearing. However, one former SEAL says otherwise. Brandon Webb, a former Navy SEAL sniper trainer, was still training recruits when the Navy adopted positive psychology rather than punishment-based corrections.

The dad explains to The Independent, “When we introduced changes to training to focus on positive psychology, our 30 percent failure rate went down to 1 percent.” That’s when he had the idea to introduce the same concept to his parenting style. No, he wasn’t teaching his children to be snipers, but his training helped him keep his cool. It also showed him that using negative tools of correction was far less effective than many once believed.

“If I say to a trainee who’s learning how to use a high-power rifle,........

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