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PODCAST: Connection Not Punishment: A Better Way to Parent feat. Wendy Snyder

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 12, 2022 | Parenting Small Children, Podcasts

What if discipline and spanking aren’t synonyms? What if there was a much more effective way of disciplining your kids where you connect with their heart and it actually BUILDS your relationship? Let’s continue our awesome talk with Wendy Snyder from...

Your Kids May Have Attachment Issues; That Doesn’t Mean It’s Your Fault

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 9, 2022 | Parenting Small Children

When my daughter Rebecca was 19 months old, her baby brother died. He was only a month old. We learned when I was about 5 months pregnant about his heart condition, and that things would be very touch and go. We spent the last four months of the pregnancy petrified of...

PODCAST: How to Misuse Statistics for Dummies

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 5, 2022 | Parenting Small Children, Podcasts

Our passion is to get evidence-based advice about marriage, sex and parenting into the hands of Christians. But that means that we have to use science well! In the last of our three podcasts with Joanna where we talk stats, we tackle a few more ways that research is...

ATTACHMENT SERIES: The 4 Attachment Styles and What They Mean

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 4, 2022 | Emotional Connection, Parenting Small Children, Series

This month we’re going to talk about attachment styles and why they matter! Attachment styles are the way that we relate to other people, and they’re based on what we learned when relating to our earliest caregivers. The field really took off in the 1950s...

Should We Teach Kids They’re Dirty Rotten Sinners?

by Rebecca Lindenbach | May 3, 2022 | Parenting Small Children

Christian parenting advice seems to really like discipline and obedience. Rebecca here on the blog today. As I was researching other parenting books and various Christian parenting blogs as I wrote my book, Why I Didn’t Rebel, this focus on repentance and...

On Vipers in Diapers, Emotional Enmeshment, and Toxic Churches

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 11, 2022 | Parenting Small Children

Dads shouldn’t need their adult daughters to give them adulation and affection. That’s called emotional enmeshment and triangulation, and yet that’s what Voddie Baucham, who has been nominated for President of the Southern Baptist Convention (he may...

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About Sheila

Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 29 years and happily married for 24! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 7 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.