Category: Family

My first post raised an important question: what can we do instead?

When asked, my response was essentially, ‘ummmm, hell if I know!’ I never put much thought into what I was doing or researched alternatives, I just tend to try and think laterally and get ‘creative’ when a problem arises.

We already do things like putting them in corners or on restrictions – but what else can we really do?

Being one who doesn’t like unanswered questions, I’ve decided to have a think and do some digging.

Let’s see, shall we?

It seems fitting that I come out of the gates here on a rather fun topic around our house: punishment. (I was barely eight paragraphs into writing this when there was a house-wide blowout on the subject.)

Quite honestly, I have become rather adverse to even the mere mention of the word ‘spanking.’

There are now two generations below me and I find myself biting my tongue more and more often – because these are not technically ‘my’ kids. I’m tired of that, so I’ve decided to see about changing the way my family – and perhaps some of the world at large – view the ‘problem’ children in their care and how to handle them.

Read on, if you dare!