Parenting with Gentleness Series

Here is a collection of the recent posts here on thoughts about parenting with grace as the foundation:

The Intro

Guest post (from a treasured friend of mine, Tonia at Study in Brown):  ”FASD Teenagers, Adopting Special Needs and Loving in the Face of Unloveliness“

Guest post (from Becca, reader and appreciated contributor): “Abused Children Becoming Parents; Breaking the Cycle of Abuse“

Proverbs 13:24, Punishing vs. Disciplining Children, and Two Year Old Fit Throwing Meditations

Parenting: Performance Mentality (Is it Compatible with Christ)?

Punishment as Reformation…Or Not.

Guest post (from the always enjoyable Chewymom): Vipers in Diapers: Sinful Children & How to Perfect Them

Guest post (from the lovely Cynthia from A Life Profound): The Godly Homeschool Family: Myth, Reality, or Idol?

Back to the Gentle Parenting Series…Parent-as-Shepherd

Letters from Readers: What Do You Do When…? (Two-Year-Old-Tantrums)

Letter from Reader: Question on Disciplining Kids, Comments

Readers Write: Talking with Friends/Aquaintances About Destructive Parenting Practices

I’m not done talking about this whole subject, since it’s one of the rocks rolling around my brain as I deconstruct my old paradigm and begin to build on a new foundation.  After all, that’s what this blog is for—my rocks (<my first ever post on this particular blog, by the way, and just as true today as it was when I wrote it then). 

Edit 6/20/08 to add a few more posts to the series:

On the Biblical Case for Spanking our Kids, or, uh, Maybe Not

Hold Your Kids to an Unkeepable Standard (So They’ll Understand Mercy)

Scripture Speaks on First Time Obedience

Questions I’d Like to Ask Some Parenting Experts

Could God Successfully Manage Behavior Through Punishment?