L.R.Knost-Little Hearts/Gentle Parenting Resources. [Excerpt reprinted from Jesus, the Gentle Parent: Gentle Christian Parenting by L.R.Knost.
Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages; Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood; and The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline by L.R.Knost also available on Amazon and through other major retailers.] “Your rod and your staff, they comfort me…”Psalm 23:4 One of the hot-button issues when it comes to discipline and children is, of course, spanking, and the more Christian and conservative the audience, the more hot the debate becomes. And yet there are no verses in the New Testament that support spanking, smacking, whipping, or otherwise hitting children. In the Old Testament there are a total of five verses that have been interpreted to encourage, or even command, the use of physical punishment on children. Yeled or yaldah – newborn boy or girl yonek or yanak – nursling baby So Proverbs 13:24 reads: Related posts:
L.R.Knost-Little Hearts/Gentle Parenting Resources. L.R.Knost-Little Hearts/Gentle Parenting Resources. The Way of the Will. Parents Are Peacemakers (1 of 7): Charlotte Mason Parenting Lessons. Scarymommy. We’re starting to introduce the concept of chores to my 5-year-old son.
Right now he’s responsible for putting away his toys at the end of the day and “helping” me do laundry and vacuum. (Granted, his vacuuming is an exercise in seeing what progressively bigger and bigger things the hose will suck up, but hey, it’s an engineering lesson, too. The ace of hearts was particularly entertaining.) We’ve also started giving him an allowance: $1 for spending, $1 for saving and $1 for giving, using the jar system that Ron Lieber, the author of The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money recommends. Lieber advises not linking chores to allowance, arguing that the allowance is not a reward but a learning tool. But that brings up the question of extra money, over and above the allowance. This picture, posted by Sandra Stock, crossed my Facebook feed: Parental Rights: Protecting Children by Empowering Parents. A Mother’s Diary – Notebook for the Attentive Mother.
10 Reasons Why You Should Never Get A Job. If you leave your kids alone, it’s not predatory strangers who are a risk. As a child, Ashley Thomas loved to go, by herself, to a meadow about a 10-minute walk from her house in Ojai, California.
Playing on her own let her imagination soar. “You can pretend you’re the Queen of Sheba,” she says. Exploring made her feel independent and grown up. Once, when she was in about the first grade, she even found a snake. “There’s no way I would have picked up a snake in front of my parents,” she says. Ah, the old-time memories of the days when kids could play on their own without someone posting a video online to shame their parents, or calling the police to have mom arrested and the children seized by social services! Thomas isn’t an aging baby-boomer telling tales to her grandkids. She’s 30. Only in the past decade or so has “no child left alone” become the social and legal norm in the U.S.
A doctoral student in cognitive science at the University of California at Irvine, Thomas is the lead author of a recently published study designed to understand what’s going on. How Inuit Parents Raise Kids Without Yelling — And Teach Them To Control Anger : Goats and Soda : NPR. 10 Ways to Teach Your Child to Pray. Pinterest. Teaching Them To Question Authority. If you would be a real seeker of truth, it is necessary that you at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.
~Rene Descarte On the first day of school, the day I meet many of our two-year-olds for the first time, I make sure our box of plastic farm animals is handy. As the kids arrive I greet them, then introduce one of the pigs by holding it up and saying, "The pig says, 'Moooo.'" Most of them laugh, "No, the cow says 'Moo! '" Attachment Parenting Babies. The 7 Bs of Attachment Parenting - Mothering. Thank you to Brian Leaf for sharing this excerpt of his book, Misadventures of a Parenting Yogi.
Parenting precepts scare me. I’m Jewish and from New Jersey, so I’m prone to worry. My neurotic mind can turn any set of precepts into another explanation of why I have failed and my children will wind up like Pee Wee Herman or Justin Bieber. Just writing about this is too much. I may need to break for some yogic pranayama. But I have found that Dr. Sears’s seven Bs of Attachment Parenting, with some commentary, are as follows: 1. 2. Parentingfreedom.com Christian Child Discipline Is Spanking Biblical No ~ this site has since gone dark, but this article was a light for my family.