Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
Against discipline, consequences and all other forms of punishment

Punishment as a teaching tool

How to make time outs work

The One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest school of parenting

Unnatural consequences

Children do not need what conventional wisdom says they need

Parents know that punishment is damaging

Biting lessons

Unhappy with natural consequences

Questioning natural consequences

Natural consequences aren’t.

“There are some issues on which I am authoritarian”

Are time outs time off or serving time?

Never made to write essays?

Coercion punishes children for reasoning

Natural consequences and “enabling”

Moving, improving: punishment will not help

Punishing children using so-called natural consequences

Time out is not taking time out

Coercion as a ‘solution’ to behavioural problems

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