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Should You Give Your Kids “that”????

December 16, 2009

From ScreamFree Parenting by Hal Runkel
“Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?”
Tom Hanks (1956- )

Hanks spoke these [...]

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Are You Stuck in the “Haftas”??

November 5, 2009

From ScreamFree Parenting, Hal Runkel
” Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. “
— Marcelene Cox

When did all of the “haftas” of family life take over the reason we [...]

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Is Screaming the New Spanking?

November 3, 2009

Last week I ran into this article that ran in the New York Times, “For Some Parents, Shouting is the New Spanking.“ It caught my attention and made me realize the impact and seriousness of this type of reactive behavior going on in households worldwide. As a ScreamFree Living advocate and leader I know how [...]

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