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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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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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I know that I am often preaching the the choir here. Many of my readers have similar values and parenting approaches to me. However, we are all often in situations where we want to be able to share rational arguments in support of non-violent parenting to those that may not be aware of the consequences [...]
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Often when I hear people talk about their discipline style it sounds unrealistic or ineffective. I haven’t read or heard any single approach to discipline that really made perfect sense to me. There are elements of many approaches that I like and elements of others that I abhor. Rather than taking one approach and running [...]
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From the research that I’ve done, I’ll well aware that using punishment to discipline children is not very effective and can be damaging. Some of the reasons I’ve learned in the past include:
REASON #1- PUNISHMENT ONLY HAS A SHORT TERM EFFECT: Parents that punish their children have to do it over and over again. The punishment [...]
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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 girl
Those are just some [...]
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