From the category archives:

Discipline

Why I Don’t Spank

by phdinparenting on December 18, 2009

I’m taking a little bloggy vacation this week and letting you all be entertained by some of my favourite bloggers. This is a post by fellow Canadian blogger Amber from Strocel.com. She is the Queen of commenting on other people’s blogs, so please show her some comment love here and on her blog.

Before I had [...]

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IComLeavWe: Day 6

by phdinparenting on November 26, 2009

It is the second to last day of IComLeavWe on speed. As I make my way through over 100 blogs this week, reconnecting and leaving comments, I hope to feature a couple of posts each day and also list the posts that I commented on.
Featured post – Do you parent differently in public?
How much do [...]

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The Hippie Housewife talks behaviour modification

by phdinparenting on August 17, 2009

Sometimes life just doesn’t leave a lot of time for blogging. As has been the case in the past, I just don’t have the time right now to dedicate to all of the fabulously interesting and insightful things I would like to write. In all seriousness, I do have a few things planned that I [...]

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Spank Out Day

by phdinparenting on April 30, 2009

Apparently April 30 is Spank Out Day USA.  It was initiated in 1998 to give widespread attention to the need to end corporal punishment of children and to promote non-violent ways of teaching children appropriate behavior. As my contribution, I offer up these two posts:

Best anti-spanking resources:  A summary of and link to some of [...]

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Beyond the Baby B’s: Attachment Through Play

by phdinparenting on April 2, 2009

Nothing was easier, more intuitive for me than the Baby Bs: breastfeeding, babywearing, bedding with baby, and so on.  Attachment parenting an infant was simple. Keep that child close, and all is well.  But then what. When a child becomes mobile, become verbal, thing are suddenly so much more complicated. Sure, many of the principles [...]

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Showing Appreciation for Underappreciated Posts

by phdinparenting on January 1, 2009

For my first blog post of the New Year, I have decided to give back to my followers. I asked on twitter for people to send me links to their underappreciated posts from 2008. Things that they wrote that didn’t get the exposure or recognition that they deserved. I am using this post to give [...]

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Abrupt

by phdinparenting on December 27, 2008

How would you feel if:

You lose your job over something you didn’t know you were doing wrong and aren’t given an opportunity to change your ways?
Your spouse left you suddenly?
Your best friend backs out of your weekly lunches with no warning because she’s sick of hearing you whining?
Your boss tells you a week before Christmas [...]

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Consensual Living

by phdinparenting on November 27, 2008

…we can make a choice; a choice to threaten and intimidate to get our way, or a choice to reach out in compassion and connection to find common ground…
I’m reading tonight about a concept that is new to me. It is called Consensual Living. The ideas behind it are not all new, but the articles [...]

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Money money money money…

by phdinparenting on November 23, 2008

For today’s reader question, I’m going to partially pass the buck by linking to some great resources and then add my own 2 cents to it (pun intended). Michelle asks:
Today I revisited a question that’s come to mind a few times, in slightly different forms, but with the same concept. I also read, and loved, [...]

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What is attachment parenting?

by phdinparenting on November 16, 2008

I decided to get back to basics with my post today. I’ve faced a lot of misunderstanding recently about what Attachment Parenting is, so I wanted to clarify what it is to me and how it is different from other styles of parenting.
Attachment Parenting Philosophy
Attachment parenting is not a list of rules. It is a [...]

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