"I would rather go to jail for spanking my kids, than for them to go because I didn't ( Read more... )

I've been learning a lot lately about really important things like perspective and integrity.

optimystik and I purchased a few books from Amazon and I've really been enjoying one. It's a parenting book called, Above All, Be Kind by Zoe Weil. I've read the first 30 pages and am stopping there because it's enough for now. Those first thirty pages are potent ( Read more... )

We do not praise Aidan. Encourage, yes. Praise, no. The articles below will expound on why and also why we won't be doing a lot of things typical parents (and even atypical parents) do with respect to discipline, etc. (I've had to paste the full articles into the entry because the main site has them as pop-ups, so I can't figure out how to link to ( Read more... )