Recent content by Chris Abraham

It's awesome that you are commited to peaceful parenting, SalesMom. Kudos to you and your husband.

The more focus you put on something, the more of that you will get. Gush over his handwriting when it looks good. Ignore it when it doesn't. Kids love attention.

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The "spare the rod" verse provided specific instruction for a specific time, which was a very looong time ago. Undisciplined children are beasts to be around and parents do their children an incredible disservice by not disciplining. However, we don't have to physically whack our kids to...

I am not an expert by any means but I will share a resource that I stumbled across many years ago. There is a book "Transforming the Difficult Child" that is phenominal. I believe it is available on Amazon. There is also a website and some local libraries have the book. Our school district...

I think the issue is more that power is being given away, not taken away. I view doctors and therapists more as advisors. They have opinions and we can accept those opinions or seek out different opinions. I was talking to a mother last week who was very upset because her doctor was "making...