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November 2011

November 30, 2011

Everyday is Forever

Smoke had filled the kitchen before I figured out where it was coming from. I...

October 2011

October 20, 2011

Parenting Resources

So yes, I want to write. I have about a dozen half written pieces, including...

September 2011

September 26, 2011

Gentle Parenting Tools: Parental Self-care

Since I started out married life and motherhood in a very unhealthy pattern of doing...

September 13, 2011

On Life, Love, and Joy

We went to the grocery store as a family. My husband had the older 2...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Spiritualizing the Night

I’ve talked before about how night time parenting is a particularly hard challenge for me....

August 23, 2011

Kiddie antics and quotes

It's been a while since I updated on the cute and silly stuff my kids...

August 17, 2011

The Decision that Changed my Life

We were at a park with our kids. I watched a young mom play in...

June 2011

June 07, 2011

A Mama’s Journey

I recently found an old list of “important goals” that I wanted to achieve in...

April 2011

April 30, 2011

National Spank Out Day

I felt so lost when I first decided not to spank. It seemed like there...

April 15, 2011

Gentle Parenting Tools: Recognize Feelings

Over fifty percent of the many spankings I received as a child were because of...

January 2011

January 19, 2011

Spanking and Trust

Recently Ms Drama had some dry skin patches on her lower back. One night I...

August 2010

August 24, 2010

Escaping the corporal punishment mentality

Early in childhood I thought everyone spanked their kids. I was spanked for disobedience, laziness,...

August 10, 2010

I Quit Spanking

We stopped spanking a year ago this month. And I would never go back. I...

May 2010

May 04, 2010

Sin and spanking

I had a commenter on this post that asked about what the Catholic church teaches...

April 2010

April 20, 2010

What to do when you don’t spank?

When I learned that discipline was not punishment, it was very difficult to reprogram my...

April 12, 2010

Spanking made me into a mean mommy

"What's this?" asked Ms. Action. I turned away from the pot I was stirring on...

December 2009

December 19, 2009

Discipline Vs. Punishment

I used to think that Discipline = Punishment. I grew up in a house that...

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