Posts Tagged ‘gentle parenting’
More Gentle Parenting Tools
Dulce de Leche continues her Opening Up The Gentle Discipline Toolbox Series with Opening Up the GD Toolbox: Redirection and Mutual Solutions and Connection. Pearl in Oyster (PIO) discusses why we should watch out for Pampering. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
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RedditSimplify Your Life By Deciding What You Will Do
Pearl In Oyster (PIO) shows us what Deciding What You Will Do looks like as she continues her 52 Tool Cards Series. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreLogical Consequences vs Punishment
Pearl in Oyster (PIO) takes a look at Logical Consequences vs Punishment as she continues her 52 Tool Cards Series. Bonus post: Sibling Rivalry? From the Mouth of Babes. <3 For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreHow Should We Respond To Disobedient Children?
How should we treat our children when they disobey us? Cultured Mama explores this question as she asks Does God Withdraw His Love from Sinners? For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read More10 Commandments for Parents and 52 Tool Cards
Dulce de Leche continues her 10 Commandments For Parents series with The 10 Commandments for Parents: Taking His Name in Vain. Pearl in Oyster (PIO) continues her 52 Tool Cards series with 52 Tool Cards Double Feature: Focus on Solutions and Problem Solving. While we’re on the subject of gentle parenting, here is a Post…
Read MoreHow Does God Respond To His Children When They Sin?
Carissa Robinson looks at how God Responds To His Children When They Sin. Do we respond to our children the same way? And to help us with that, Pearl in Oyster (PIO) explains how to use Natural Consequences in a gentle way as she continues her 52 Tool Card Series. This is a very important…
Read MoreWatch Thy Tongue
Dulce de Leche shares a post about our words and the power they hold over our children. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreMore Commandments for Parents
Dulce de Leche continues her 10 Commandments For Parents series with The 10 Commandments for Parents: No Graven Image. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreGetting Children to Cooperate
Pearl in Oyster (PIO) continues her 52 Tool Cards series with a very helpful post about eliciting cooperation by observing aloud and playful parenting. Meanwhile, Dulce de Leche explains how we should Use Our Words carefully in order to make sure that our young children understand what we want from them. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd…
Read MoreMore 52 Tool Cards Posts
Pearl in Oyster (PIO) adds to her 52 Tool Card series with 52 Tool Cards: Winning Cooperation and 52 Tool Cards Double Feature: Connection Before Correction and Closet Listening. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreDoes God Spank His Children?
Carissa Robinson delves into the question, “Does God Spank His Children?“ For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreCommandments for Parents
Dulce de Leche explains how some parents inadvertently set themselves up as idols in The 10 Commandments for Parents: No Other Gods. Alison Strobel explains Golden Rule Parenting. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreThoughts Of A Gentle Christian Mother
Alison Strobel shares how and why she became a Gentle Christian Mother and how it has improved her life. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreBig Emotions
Dulce de Leche explains the importance of feelings in Opening Up the GD Toolbox: Big Emotions. Pearl in Oyster (PIO) offers a 52 Tool Card Double Feature: Wheel of Choice and Anger Wheel of Choice. She also has some insight from Jeff VanVonderen about three Greek words for anger in the Bible. For your sharing…
Read MoreA Look at Shaming and More
Emily of Peace On Dark Nights has a post at Our2crazyboys Where She Talks About Shaming. I highly recommend that everyone read this and consider her words carefully. While we’re discussing gentle parenting, take a look at Pearl In Oyster’s (PIO’s) post about Silent Signals, you might find it very useful. This post is part…
Read MoreGentle Parenting
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.…
Read MoreDisciplining the Adopted Child
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 For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreGentle Discipline
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…
Read More52 Tool Cards: Hugs
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 For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MorePositive Discipline
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…
Read MoreUnderstanding Our Little Ones
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)…
Read MoreJesus: Gentle Parent
Little Hearts Gentle Parenting Resources posts about Jesus, The Gentle Parent and how we can learn from Him and His example. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreDealing With Big Feelings
MorningGloryGirl has a post at Dare To Disciple about Dealing With Children’s Big Feelings. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreDisequilibrium
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…
Read MoreValidate Emotions
Pearl in Oysters (PIO) posts about the importance of Validating Emotions as part of her 52 Tool Cards series. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreGentle Parenting and Defiance
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. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreGentle Parenting Is More Than Just Not Spanking
Dulce de Leche looks at the punitive mindset and how it affects our relationships with our children in It’s Not Just About Spanking. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreNatural Consequences
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) …
Read MoreShowing Your Children That You Believe in Them
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. For your sharing convenience:TwitterFacebookemailPrintTumblrDiggdel.icio.usStumbleUponAdd to favoritesReddit
Read MoreGentle Parenting In Action
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,…
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