by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 27, 2024 | Parenting Young Kids
Does spanking help kids obey? Yesterday on the Bare Marriage podcast I had an amazing conversation with David and Amanda Erickson about their new book The Flourishing Family. One thing I especially appreciated about their book is that they brought in the data about...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 26, 2024 | Parenting Teens, Parenting Young Kids, Podcasts
Christian parenting advice is full of toxic teachings we need to ditch! It’s not just marriage and sex where a lot of Christian teachings have gone wrong. It’s also with parenting. Instead of teaching parents to connect with their kids and discipline in a...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 2, 2023 | Abuse
The story behind Shiny, Happy People is the story behind Bare Marriage. Not exactly, of course. But in many ways we started this work because of the same forces that the new documentary Shiny, Happy People, which just landed on Amazon Prime, is revealing. This one is...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 16, 2022 | Parenting Young Kids
We simply must talk more about how spanking affects children long term. The biggest group of people who still support spanking are evangelical Christians, yet the research about spanking being harmful for kids is overwhelming. I’m not going to rehash that today,...
