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Soft Spoken

Soft Spoken

One of the comments from Amber on the Success of Smacking to me to thinking about being soft spoken. My mother was always soft-spoken, and I have always been that way as well. She never really raised her voice to us when we were little. She’s told me a couple of times that she almost [...]

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The Success of Smacking

The Success of Smacking

I saw this article yesterday about a study done in the UK where they had found that children who were smacked up until the age of 6 were more successful in later life than children who weren’t smacked. I was reading some of the comments on the post at Her Bad Mother and I started [...]

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The Googy

The Googy

Fair Warning – this is going to be one of those super mooshy posts where I wax lyrical about how much I love my baby. If it’s not your kind of thing you may want to skip over it or get a bucket. But don’t say that I didn’t warn you. I’ve had a rough [...]

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Favourite Blog Posts of 2009

Favourite Blog Posts of 2009

I read Best Blog Posts of 2009 at Scary Mommy and thought it was a pretty cool idea – if I have only got 6 months to choose from. I started this blog in July, thinking that it would be fun to do every now and then, but it quickly became more addictive than I’d [...]

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Getting Slapped Upside the Head

Getting Slapped Upside the Head

I’ve been getting slapped a lot lately. Yes. That innocent looking munchkin is the culprit. Sometimes it’s just some enthusiastic back ‘patting’ and sometimes it’s like it was this afternoon – a surprisingly strong double-handed face slap. I don’t really know what to do. I know that it is mostly from frustration, particularly during teething. [...]

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Discipline Without Punishment or Reward

Discipline Without Punishment or Reward

I’m currently reading Alfie Kohn’s Unconditional Parenting. And although I haven’t gotten too far beyond the first chapter it’s definitely an eye opener. He says in the introduction that it is subversive and it is definitely that. All concepts of time-outs, consequences and reward charts are thrown out the window in favour of providing choices, [...]

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Discipline and the Mighty Toddler

Discipline and the Mighty Toddler

Riley is nearly 18 months old and I’m yet to come across a situation that would require even an early form of discipline. Some of the mothers’ in our play group are already using time outs or a slap on the hand. I don’t believe in any form of slapping/smacking/threat of either as a way [...]

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