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December 8, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

I have had so much to share lately that my Gentle Parenting posts have been building up.  Here are some great posts to help you fill your Gentle Discipline Toolbox as well as encourage you in your Gentle Parenting.

Claire continues her Myth Busting at Dare To Disciple with Myth Busting 8: Breaking a lamb’s leg.

Dulce de Leche  explains about Opening Up the GD Toolbox: Stories.

Carissa Robinson shares about Parenting Through Changes.

Pearl in Oyster continues her series 52 Tool Cards Double Feature: Empower your Kids and Encouragement.

Cultured Mama explains How to Raise a Human, Radically.

Sally Clarkson shares Her philosophy of parenting: Pondering Christ.

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Disciplining the Adopted Child

November 21, 2011 By Hermana Linda 3 Comments

Kelly of Toll For Thee shares how he Disciplines her Adopted Child without spanking.  (This site has been removed.)

While we’re discussing Gentle Discipline, Dulce de Leche has some more tools for your Gentle Discipline Toolbox:
Opening Up the GD Toolbox: Physical Needs
Opening Up the GD Toolbox: Play

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Gentle Discipline

November 5, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

I have had so much to share lately that my Gentle Parenting links have been piling up.

Carissa Robinson describes Genuine Obedience.

Dulce De Leche explains about Gentle Parenting, that It’s a Lifestyle, Not an Event.

Claire continues her Myth Busting series with Myth Busting 6: “I could see it in her eyes”.

Greengem reminds us to keep Playful Parenting in our toolbox in My other car is a pterodactyl…

Pearl in Oyster (PIO) continues with her 52 Tool Cards series with  52 Tool Cards: Motivation and 52 Tool Cards: Follow Through.

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52 Tool Cards: Hugs

October 22, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Pearl in Oyster (PIO) shares another great tool for your toolbox:  hugs.  She shares an example of how well MamaPsamist’s lovely story of Gertie Giraffe works.  <3

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Positive Discipline

October 19, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Kirk Martin of Calm Christian Parenting asks Is this really defiance? What do YOU think?  (Note:  the comments show that Kirk Martin does not condemn spanking which makes this post a good one to share with pro-spankers)

Along similar lines but for younger children, Pearl in Oyster (PIO) continues her 52 Tool Cards with Teach Children What to Do.

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Overcoming the Issues of The Older Adoptive Child

October 10, 2011 By Hermana Linda 2 Comments

Veteran Adoptive Parent, Christine Minich explains the Issues with Older Adoptive Children and how to overcome them.   What she recommends is almost the polar opposite of the Recipe For Disaster in my last post.

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Understanding Our Little Ones

September 29, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

MamaPsalmist discusses a post from Positive Parenting which explains why Nonpunitive Discipline ≠ Lazy Parenting in Positive Parenting: Toddlers and Beyond: Nonpunitive Discipline ≠ Lazy Parenting.

On a similar note, Elizabeth (from Virginia Is For Mothers) shares some very helpful insight about giving grace and understanding to Child Size Problems.

And Pearl In Oyster (PIO) shares about validating and working through a three year old’s nighttime fears in Dealing with Tears & Fears at Bedtime.

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Jesus: Gentle Parent

September 26, 2011 By Hermana Linda 1 Comment

Little Hearts Gentle Parenting Resources posts about Jesus, The Gentle Parent and how we can learn from Him and His example.

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Dealing With Big Feelings

September 23, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

MorningGloryGirl has a post at Dare To Disciple about Dealing With Children’s Big Feelings.

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Disequilibrium

September 21, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Carissa Robinson explains the concept of Disequilibrium and what it looks like for her 3 yr old who is Swiftly Approaching Disequilibrium.  This concept is from a series of books by Louise Bates Ames & Frances L. Ilg about what age appropriate behavior you can expect from children at each age.  Learning about this is very valuable as it allows her to make a game plan which she helpfully shares with us.

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Validate Emotions

September 20, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Pearl in Oysters (PIO) posts about the importance of Validating Emotions as part of her 52 Tool Cards series.

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Gentle Parenting and Defiance

September 16, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

MamaPsalmist considers how hard it is to leave punitive spanking behind when a child is being defiant and if it is worth it in, Coming Out of Hiding.

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Gentle Parenting Is More Than Just Not Spanking

September 15, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Dulce de Leche looks at the punitive mindset and how it affects our relationships with our children in It’s Not Just About Spanking.

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Submission and Children

September 10, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

MamaPsalmist has some thoughts about Submission which I thought you might find interesting.

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Natural Consequences

September 9, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Carissa Robinson discusses Natural Consequences and gives 2 examples to help us along in our journey to gentle parenting.

And don’t miss this very important explanation of how being upset causes us to access the flight or fight part of our brains in 52 Tool Cards: Understand the Brain on Pearl in Oyster (PIO)

 

 

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Showing Your Children That You Believe in Them

September 2, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Pearl In Oyster (PIO) shares yet another tool from her 52 Tool Cards series, Show Faith or in other words, show them that you believe that they can do it.

Another similar tool is to break tasks into Small Steps.

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Gentle Parenting In Action

August 12, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Libby Anne has a very interesting blog post about how being raised by the Pearls’ teachings affects her efforts to gently parent her daughter in Parenting Is Not A Contest.

For more examples of Gentle Parenting, check out Pearl in Oyster’s (PIO’s) play by play of one whole day day:

A Day in the Life, Part 1 – Morning Routine

A Day in the Life, Part 2 – getting out the door and running a few errands.

A Day in the Life, Part 3 – Library and Lunch

A Day in the Life, Part 4-The Rest of our Day

And allow  Greenegem to show you what Guiding with a rod looks like.

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Discipleship and Autism

August 11, 2011 By Hermana Linda 1 Comment

Greenegem shared about how she had to go to the hospital and how her son was diagnosed with autism back in July in Life: Where the Rubber Meets the Road. Now, almost 3 weeks later, she processes about her 2nd hospital stay and how it affected her 2 young sons in Adhesive: Life part 2.  In this post she also reflects more on her eldest son’s diagnosis of autism and how spanking would never have worked on him.  She shares some very important ideas here because much damage can be done by well meaning parents who believe that a child’s will must  be dominated.

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How to Avoid Frustration

August 5, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Pearl in Oyster (PIO) shares some really helpful advice which is sure to help avoid frustration in your household.  This post is from her 52 Tool Cards series and is called, Eye to Eye.

She mentions a child’s brain development in her post which brings me to an excerpt from Samuel Martin’s newest book in which he shares why it does not make sense to punish young children for sins before they are even old enough to understand sinning.

 

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Story Telling

August 4, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Pearl in Oyster (PIO) shared about another handy tool for your toolbox, Story Telling.  This tool is good for calming children as well as setting them up for success.

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Back Talk

July 29, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

As Pearl In Oyster (PIO) goes through her 52 Tool Cards she comes to Don’t Back Talk Back, in which she discusses how to respond to Back Talk.

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How Marriage Reflects Parenting

July 28, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Heather, from My Life, posts an argument for using gentle parenting based on the pattern given for marriage in Ephesians. But I’m not doing this post justice, so here is a small excerpt:

If the Scriptures speak of a marriage relationship full of respect and love, why do we read and implement teachings of parenting that exclude respect, love, grace, understanding,….? Are those things only reserved for a husband and wife’s relationship and when it comes to parenting we can pull out all the stops and physically punish our child(ren) and treat them as a wild animal that needs training?

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A Wrong Turn On The Parenting Journey

July 25, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Dulce de Leche shares how she made a Wrong Turn in her parenting and how she corrected it.  Here is more about Correcting the Course.

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Reflecting the Character of God

July 22, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

The Hippie Housewife discusses how we should reflect the character of God for our children.  She looks at how attachment parenting looks a lot like how God cares for us and warns us about 3 heresies which are cropping up in many Christian teachings.

Along the same lines, Pearl In Oyster (PIO) explains that we should imitate how God disciplines His children.  She uses her testimony of how God treated her when she was out of His will as an example.

 

 

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Spiritual Roots

July 15, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Dulce de Leche looks at the Spiritual Roots of discipline.

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Too Scared To Sleep

July 12, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Pearl in Oyster (PIO) shares how her young daughter was Scared Sleepless and why considering the reasons can help us to be patient when our children can’t sleep.

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Parents as Good Samaritans

July 7, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Samuel Martin discusses what it means to be a Good Neighbor to your family in this look at the parable of the Good Samaritan which he illustrates with scenes from a blog post by Dulce de Leche.

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Control Your Behavior

July 4, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Pearl In Oyster (PIO) continues her 52 Tool Cards series with Control  Your  Behavior. This is something to keep in mind as I have also noticed that I tend to set the tone for the family.

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Gentle Discipline for Toddlers

July 2, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

The Hippie Housewife shares some great tips on Gentle Discipline for Toddlers.  This is a must read for anyone who is looking for the nitty gritty on how to deal with toddlers and keep their sanity at the same time.  ;-)

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Fruits of Gentle Discipline

June 29, 2011 By Hermana Linda Leave a Comment

Dulce de Leche explains how she came to chose Gentle Discipline 7 years ago and examines the fruits of her decision in  7 Year Harvest.

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