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The holidays are an exciting time for children. The gifts, the lights, the decorations, the food, the family gathering -- the list goes on and on. |
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. |
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? |
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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. |
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. |
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"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? |
"In developing strategies and policies, avoid the conceptual trap that youth are either victims or perpetrators, or only a risk factor - draw upon the increasing evidence that demonstrates that youth are largely peaceful agents and assets." |
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