This new forum is a resource forum for those interested in learning more about it and applying what they'd like to within their own families.

Each family does what they feel is best, but anyone that chooses to physically punish their children should not use this as a debate forum.

Oh Sara, thank you so very much. One of my favorite topics!!

;) Sara - funny I just heard someone mention that. :heartsm: see intuitiveness strikes again!!

absolutely fabulous forum, sara. I always found that talking to my boys, having "time out" and, later on, being grounded always worked with them. I never hit them.

I hope this forum fills to overflowing with gentle mums.

Wonderful idea!! The two older kiddos are old enough where they feel the consequences of their actions, but Belle is a little different!

We've used "reality discipline" with her....

I feel I did the others a big disservice by not looking for alternatives to spanking them....hard to teach a child to constructively handle situations when they only me swatting their rumps as a way of handling them....

Sorry for the tangent....great idea as usual!!

debbie, it always amazed me that parents thought that hitting their child would teach them not to hit other children. :confused:

it's good we are talking about these things now. When my kids were little almost everyone I knew spanked their kids and didn't understand why I didn't. It just never made sense to me.

Thank you Sara!

Thank You Sara,

We don't believe in Corpral punishment either, Mine all learned by consequences.

I have tried to never "punish" my children but I definitely discipline them. When they were little I do recall swatting my youngest on the rump and rapping his knuckles. It was either that or risk him burning himself on the stove.

The five year old I babysit doesn't even know what the word punish means. Yet she rarely misbehaves. She does understand "time out" and "stop" very easily. I really admire her parents.

I wish that when my kids were really young there had been more info about how to discipline your children without smacking them. I only knew what was commonly accepted and I really struggled with how I would manage discipline.

Great Idea Sara!!

This village is really evolving.