Parenting and family stuff

good stuff from around the internet on raising good kids, building a family, etc.

Positive Discipline is a parenting philosophy that holds that the reason for a child’s misbehavior is a mistaken belief or goal he has while in pursuit of belonging and significance. In order to solve the behavior challenge while enabling the child to build self-discipline and responsibility, therefore, the belief must be handled first. Thus,... See more

Samantha Joy • Discipline as Encouragement

Stuart Evans

Broadening his inputs

I want him to have a wide range of inputs into his senses.

We go play in as many different forests, beaches, mountains, and towns as possible, touching and smelling everything we can.

Parenting : Who is it really for?

simon

Forced to Care

Anne Helen Petersen annehelen.substack.com

Keely Adler

For what it’s worth, in raising our own kids we created an effective, balanced, common-sense approach based not on rules but on three principles. Treat everyone with respect. Whatever you undertake, give it your best effort. You, and only you, are accountable for your actions.

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This Is the Way

Stephen O'Grady thisistheway.us

sari

you should probably have a kid

benedict benexdict.io

Stuart Evans

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Washington Post washingtonpost.com

Avni Patel Thompson

(One of my favorite pieces of parenting advice: You have to give yourself what you needed when you were a kid, and give your kids what they need now.)

Austin Kleon • The Way You Wanted to Feel

simon

In only three generations, children in the British Isles as well as the United States have lost their freedom to roam, their independently explorable territories shrinking from hundreds of acres to the dimensions of each child’s own back yard. This is not an accusation toward parents; their decisions reflect their judgments about their children’s

Simplicio • The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth

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