I found a group in facebook called non-violent parenting n___n
I like how most of those are "How Not to Immediately Flip Your trout When Your Kid is smurfing Around."
22 Alternatives to Punishment - The Natural Child Project
you should ban me for scaring you
That's more like it. He and Steven Colbert are my gay dads.
no i said that 'consider the following' was an overused and annoying meme as if I would ever say anything bad about him. HOW DARE YOU
Did you just call Bill Nye the Science Guy a stupid meme??
>retarded <3
In case you didn't notice, the way you word things is almost always retarded. Negative consequences aren't always in the form of punishment. If you eat too much, you get fat. No one is punishing you, it's just a negative result of bad choices. Teaching just punishment avoidance is bad though. For example, you would want your focus to be on teaching your child "if I do well in school my parents trust me more" rather than "if I do poorly in school my mother will hit me." A child is never too young for your focus as a parent to be on positive reinforcement rather than punishment avoidance. It's how you raise an intrinsically motivated adult.
way to completely not answer my question it's not like I think children should be beaten >does 'avoiding punishment' really just mean avoiding negative reinforcement? ie: at that age, is it too soon to enforce good behaviour with positive consequences?
