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Instead of Punishment: Where to Start
I have four kids who’ve never been spanked. I would like to say that they’ve never been punished at all, but while we’d resolved from the very beginning not to physically hurt our children, moving away from punishments completely … Continue reading
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Q & A – What Do You Do When The Other Parent Isn’t On Board?
Carrie asks, What are your suggestions when the other parent isn’t on board with unschooling and gentle parenting? First, an example of what not to do: Several years ago, my family went to an unschooling conference in San Diego. … Continue reading
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Q and A – How Do I Move To Gentle Parenting?
On YouTube with an answer to another parenting question: If you have children and have been spanking and using rewards and punishments their whole lives, how do you start to make the needed connections to be a gentle parent? I … Continue reading
Being a Parent AND a Friend: Why I’ll Never Separate The Two
As an advocate of homeschooling, I forever hear the question, “But what about socialization?” and am inevitably filled with frustration. It’s not the asker’s fault of course, but it is a question born of a lack of understanding. A … Continue reading
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Book Review: Gentle Firmness by Stephanie Cox
It is clear that fear is the main effect of spanking, no matter how it is done. Believing that God wants children to be hit often leads many children to struggle with their relationships with God or to be so … Continue reading
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Hitting is Hitting is Hitting
On March 27th, 2014, an NFL player named Ray Rice was indicted by a grand jury for third-degree aggravated assault on his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer. This past week, the website TMZ released footage of him punching Palmer, which led … Continue reading
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Book Review: Jesus, the Gentle Parent by L.R. Knost
“We are our children’s first experience of God. How we treat them, how we respond to them, what we model for them, those are all images of parenthood that are imprinted on our children’s hearts from the moment … Continue reading
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Five Words & Phrases We Need to Stop Saying About Moms and Motherhood
It’s a tricky thing, parenting. We’re often our own worst critics, berating ourselves for our mistakes, and second-guessing our choices. Add to that the near constant barrage of opinions from society at large, and we have a recipe for confusion, … Continue reading
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Child Abuse Cloaked in “Christian Discipline”… Another Death at the Hands of Pearl Followers
I am writing this as my children sleep. My four children, who, while they’ve surely never had perfect parents, have never had parents that they’ve feared. I wish, I so badly wish, that that was the case in all homes. … Continue reading
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