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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...