How lowering your expectations — of your child and yourself — might be the most loving thing you do today It started with math homework. A little boy sat at the kitchen table, his worksheet open in front of him. His parents sat nearby, ready to help. But somewhere between the first problem and the last, something derailed — not the homework, but the whole experience. He fidgeted. He leaned. He looked away. And his parents, exhausted from a long day, began correcting everythin

In our last post, we talked about how the belief system you carry into parenting shapes everything — how fear-based theology tends to produce fear-based discipline, and how shifting your attention toward what your child does right changes the entire energy of your home. If you haven’t read that one yet, start there. It lays the foundation for everything we’re about to talk about. Because this post goes one step further. This one is for the parents who are asking a harder que

This is a short post about fear based parenting vs. love based parenting

When it comes to managing behavior, there's often debate over whether rewards or punishment is the superior method. However, recent...