2833 Parenting Without Punishment - Saturday Call In Show November 1st, 2014

As a parent, when is and when isn't it appropriate to say no? How do you prepare children for siblings? Is Aristotelianism compatible with atheism? We’re peaceful parents, but believe that we’ve made some mistakes, is it okay to not be 100% philosophical parents? As parents we’ve found that we use negative consequences more than positive ones, is this bad? What is the difference between teasing and abuse?Includes: Children repeat what they see their parents doing, removing temptation, the importance of preparation instead of in the moment problem solving, age appropriate expectations, electric teddy bears, hand-spiders which feast on lying, the horror of using preferences as punishment, dispute resolution between children, the death of Socrates for corrupting the youth, death penalty for apostasy, the intimacy of breastfeeding, unspoken history becoming the future of your children, investing in the bond, looking at things from the deathbed back, intimacy is not an on demand iOS application and horrified by the sounds of happy children.