Shiny, Happy People Amazon Series: It’s Personal. It’s Important.

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...

What Does Spanking Teach Kids about How Love Should Hurt?

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,...

What My Grandson Taught Me about How God Sees Us

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 14, 2022 | Faith, Parenting Young Kids

Every now and then my grandkids give me a picture of God’s love for us. Or rather, their parents do. I don’t share about my grandkids very often, but last week, on a private Instagram page, Rebecca posted a series of pictures of my 3-year-old grandson Alex and his dad...

One Woman Shares How Being Spanked as a Child Affected Her Sexually

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 24, 2022 | Parenting Young Kids, Sex

The harm from spanking doesn’t always come from the spanking being done in anger, or by terrible parents. Sometimes the harm comes from good parents who spanked “in love”, exactly how the church taught them to. When I wrote about the harms from...

The Sexual Element in Spanking Children: Let’s Ask the Uncomfortable Questions

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 22, 2022 | Abuse, Parenting Young Kids, Sex, Sexual Intimacy

Can we talk about something hush hush? What if spanking kids is also a form of sexual assault? Hear me out on this one, okay? I’ve shared a number of social media posts and podcasts about spanking lately, including what the large meta-analysis of 160,000...