Monday Medley: Punishment is pointless for children

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Dr. Laura writes about how punishment does not teach your child accountability, and when you consider her logic you soon realize how right she is. Internal motivation, experience and life itself teaches accountability, as does our own demonstration; punishment only incites resentment, hate and self-loathing, among other harms.

Need some sleepy time tips for your toddler? Here are some great ideas at Little Hearts, Gentle Parenting. Since WS and I have started doing her meditations at night, I have found that it helps so much in her sleep. She also has better dreams this way.

Here’s a great compilation of 10 reasons why we shouldn’t let our babies cry it out. I really hope this awful fad—which started from a scientific fallacy that has since been disproven, by the way—stops soon.

This comparison of human milk versus formula is interesting; I don’t think I’ve ever seen them broken down like this before.

Have you heard about the teens who are fighting demons by protesting Harry Potter? They are also preaching the harms of Sexually Transmitted Demons… I have actually seen teens do amazing things, like bring toilets to villages where they did not exist or filter water for the health of children with innovative, cheap technology. This has not been one of those instances.

You have 36 hours to prepare for a disaster: how do you save your family? I don’t mean to sound alarming like this piece does but it is a great idea to prepare for a few days of potential disaster when you can with some stored food, water and supplies. My family really needs to do this. Has yours?

“I did it!” You did it! Oh, how I wish I had traded all of the “Good jobs” in my daughter’s life for “You did its” years ago.

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