How do you feel it was like for your great-grandmother to be admonished for instinctively loving her child, only to be told that her instinct is exactly what would damage that child?
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Whether you have negative or positive core beliefs, the thoughts that come from these will transmit to how you feel and respond to your child's behavior. |
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It is important to set limits on behavior and it is important to instill within our children a sense that there are wise and unwise choices, but how do we do this without also ingraining shame? |
Working on the "Parenting Without Shame" issue of Attached Family was unlike any that have come before. I didn't realize, when I began, of how little I knew about shame as a topic. |
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From the Attachment Parenting perspective, positive discipline embodies the “golden rule” of parenting -- in other words, treat children the way you would want to be treated if you were the child. Here's how. |
"Parenting without shame" is a hot topic on search engines. Google pulled up more than 5 pages for me of links with this search term. It seems that many parents are looking for ways to raise their children without shame. But is this possible? |
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Children hear the word "no" about 400 times a day. Being told "no" constantly doesn’t feel good and often times can be frustrating. |
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It’s this time of year -- Thanksgiving holiday -- when we pause and take a moment to reflect on all that we are grateful for. |
In his book Playful Parenting, Dr. Lawrence Cohen points out that through play, children explore the world, work through challenging situations and get connected with the people they are close with. |
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