No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems

Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems by coryfklein on Monday December 05, 2016 @11:44AM (#13106699)

I have three boys, ages 10m, 2.5y, and 4.5y. I can confirm that in my case (at least for the two older boys), pretty much all the advice in the article is correct. As I read, I realized that I have been occasioning upon the recommended parenting strategies almost by happenstance.

It's neat to see those specific strategies called out though - I can immediately think back to times when I tried that and realize, "ohhh, so that's why it worked so well." Should help me focus more on those strategies.

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Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems by virgilp on Monday December 05, 2016 @01:22PM (#13107788)

I have three girls. I swear to God, the first two were fairly difficult with getting them to eat healthy, each in their own way - but hey, we are smart & informed, we handled them!

The third one broke us. We got to the point where both me & my wife were begging her, "come on, eat this, it has lots of chocolate!"

All these kind of advice works... until it doesn't. Yes, many parents don't know how to handle their kids. It's also often genuinely hard - I learned to not judge people for "not doing the right thing", without knowing the full story.

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