Do We Need to Teach our Kids That They’re Dirty Rotten Sinners?

by Rebecca Lindenbach | Mar 15, 2018 | Family

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...

Why Discipline Often Backfires with Kids

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 6, 2016 | Parenting Small Children, Parenting Teenagers

Disciplining children can be a headache–especially when it seems like it’s not doing any good! But disciplining children is an unavoidable aspect of parenting, even if it’s frustrating at times. So today I am excited to welcome Jim and Lynne...

Obey, Okay? Why Okay is a 4-Letter Word

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 12, 2015 | Parenting Small Children

One of the posts that’s always big on this blog is “Have We Forgotten to Be a Mommy”? It’s all about how things that were once normal practice for moms seem to have fallen by the wayside. I was looking at some of the more recent comments and it...

Top 10 Ways to Discipline without Spanking

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 18, 2014 | Parenting Small Children

It’s Tuesday, the day when I brainstorm 10 ideas about something. And today we’re going to deal with how to discipline without spanking. Personally, we never spank, though I don’t think spanking is always wrong. But I do think that in the vast...

Winning the Parenting Power Struggle

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 26, 2013 | Parenting Teenagers

Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario and Saskatchewan. This week, let’s talk about power struggles with children. I recently read about a dad who dialed 911 when he discovered that his teenage daughter had...

Brat is Not a Learning Disability

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 26, 2011 | Parenting Small Children

Poor parenting hurts everyone! Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario, and I decided to focus this week’s on people who never discipline their kids–and so raise brats. Back a few centuries ago,...

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