shame

Is shame a barrier to social change?

September 15, 2011




I’ve had a lot of interesting conversations over the past few days about shame, guilt, and social change. Without going into excruciating detail, I heard a lot of people say that calls for formula marketing to be restricted makes formula feeding moms feel shamed because if formula marketing needs to be restricted, then that means [...]

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Is Palin running for VP to punish her daughter?

September 12, 2008




Okay, I know I said that I would try to stay out of the American election and focus on the Canadian, but I just can’t help myself. I am continuing to work on my posts on the parenting and family platforms of our Canadian parties and in fairness to everyone am thinking of releasing them [...]

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The effect of shame

June 8, 2008




Parents like us that don’t spank, need to find other alternatives for discipline. However, it is important to remember that verbal abuse can be as detrimental as physical abuse and we need to choose our words carefully when reacting to our children’s behaviour. You’re stupid What a baby That was really dumb You’re a bad [...]

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