How Your Stress Response Affects Your Children

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Parenting RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Stress is everywhere you look and you can either succumb to it or learn to let it flow right by you. Jobs are stressful, financial woes can be stressful and yes, children can be stressful. [...]

Another Great Reason Not To Spank

A recent meta-analysis of various spanking studies done over the years concluded that children who were spanked, slapped, hit or on the receiving end of objects thrown at them (shudder), were more likely to engage in criminal and anti-social behaviors as adults. This included domestic violence, sexual violence and child abuse.
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The Ultimate Attachment Parenting Guide

Are you ready to learn about attachment parenting? You have come to the right place. Our guide to attachment parenting is an ever evolving list of links designed to let you navigate through the basics of attachment parenting without surfing all over the web. If you know of a link that would be helpful, [...]

Man gives away spanking paddles

Every idiot needs a village and this idiot’s village is Pittsburg.
According to an article in Pittsburgh Live.com, a homeschooling mother, Susan Lawrence, is spearheading efforts to stop some nutcase from giving away paddles designed to spank children. The photo attached to the article shows this lunatic wielding what appears to be a [...]

Positive Child Discipline

Time-out sucks…away your child’s emotional security

One of the most commonly used parenting techniques in current day used throughout schools, homes, and day cares is “time-out”. “Timeout” is based primarily on a way of thinking that implies children act out for attention. Therefore, if a child is acting out ‘for’ attention, you don’t want to reward [...]