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Gentle discipline

If you’re wondering how to discipline a child – your child – effectively, you are not alone. Contradictions and controversies rein in the Western world of discipline techniques. Spanking or positive discipline? Gentle discipline or rewards and punishment? While recently reading the book Healthy at 100 by John Robbins, the last thing I expected to [...]

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Disciplining the “Live Wire” Child

by emily on December 11, 2009

By the time Benjamin was around two years old, I had a feeling he was going to be what some label as a “strong-willed child.” Now, in all of his three-year-old glory, I’m not sure he’s as much strong-willed as he is what I think of as a “live wire”: full of energy, in constant [...]

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Terrific Tantrums

by emily on November 13, 2009

How to deal with tantrums? I was hoping beyond hope that I would never have to address this question personally. When my son reached the age of two, then two and a half, and still was not throwing temper tantrums on a regular basis, I thought maybe we would be able to walk right on [...]

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