http://theattachedfamily.com/?p=3553 Connecting with our children for a more compassionate world. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:07:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://theattachedfamily.com/?p=3553&cpage=1#comment-8811 Tracey Black Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:46:58 +0000 http://theattachedfamily.com/?p=3553#comment-8811 Thanks for posting this. I really needed this article right now. My 5 year old has been testing his limits lately and it’s making both of us frustrated. I need to ask him these questions and talk more rather than react and automatically put him on time out.

]]> http://theattachedfamily.com/?p=3553&cpage=1#comment-8745 Julie Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:37:53 +0000 http://theattachedfamily.com/?p=3553#comment-8745 Toda! I have been talking about how spanking is NOT a necessary part of discipline or teaching on my FB page because it models and thereby, reinforces the exact frustrated, aggressive, attacking, out-of-control behavior you describe here, naturally being displayed by the children- which leaves no one in the driver’s seat to model the flexibility, compassion and healthy/appropriate discharge of negative feelings and both sides hurting. Obviously, adults who were spanked as chidren had the former qualities demonstrated to them as part of a loving relationship and it’s easy to see why the cycle repeats. It’s posts like these that can help teach those if us willing to learn and break the cycle to raise our children (and grandchildren!) in a more peaceful, compassionate world.

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