Raising Our Children with Love

Raising Our Children with Love: Successful Parenting Without Hitting

A practical guide to parenting with compassion and awareness. It examines harshness in adults' responses and encourages creative ways to handle children's mistakes.

Drawing on more than 200 real-life experiences, it considers questions such as when hitting is forbidden, whether girls and boys are treated alike, and how families can live for years without hitting. Practical alternatives and accounts from parents who stopped physical punishment encourage an approach based on love.