Parenting Small Children Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

One Woman Shares How Being Spanked as a Child Affected Her Sexually

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 24, 2022 | Parenting Small Children

The harm from spanking doesn’t always come from the spanking being done in anger, or by terrible parents. Sometimes the harm comes from good parents who spanked “in love”, exactly how the church taught them to. When I wrote about the harms from...

The Sexual Element in Spanking Children: Let’s Ask the Uncomfortable Questions

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 22, 2022 | Parenting Small Children

Can we talk about something hush hush? What if spanking kids is also a form of sexual assault? Hear me out on this one, okay? I’ve shared a number of social media posts and podcasts about spanking lately, including what the large meta-analysis of 160,000...

Break the Cycle: Learn Positive Discipline with Kids, Rather than Punitive Control

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 17, 2022 | Parenting Small Children

We know that parenting is the biggest responsibility we will ever have. But we’ve been told such different things about the nature of that responsibility. If you grew up in an evangelical church, chances are you were told that a parent’s job is to teach...

On Spanking: When You Think You’re Following the Bible, but You’re Really Following Your Own Interpretation

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 23, 2022 | Parenting Small Children

It’s easy to use the “we’re just following the Bible!” trumpcard when debating something, and spanking proves an excellent example of how this can go awry. We’ve been talking about spanking as a method of discipline for a few weeks now,...

Spanking Fixed It For You: It’s Okay to Change Your Mind about Spanking

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 20, 2022 | Parenting Small Children

I never spanked my kids. Well, there’s a funny story about Katie, but I’ll leave that for another time. What I did do, though, was write a column in my weekly paper about twenty years ago bemoaning the fact that the Children’s Aid Society was taking...

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...

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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.