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How America’s Culture of Shame is a Killer for Boys – Mark Greene

http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/megasahd-why-americas-culture-of-shame-is-killing-us/ This article by Mark is wonderful, and the writer was crying before the end…Although the title gives a masculine focus, the points made are valid for us all, however we self describe/make sense of gender. This is the second … Continue reading

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Violence – a family tradition: Robbyn Peters Bennett at TEDxBellingham

Found this powerful and moving – thanks, Monica, for posting it. It’s about parenting and child development, and especially the harmful impact of physical punishment (something on which over 90% of the research evidence agrees). We especially like how Robbyn … Continue reading

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Parenting: Some useful info/resources re spanking/physical punishment

Parenting: Some useful info/resources re spanking/physical punishment Thank you again, Monica. Well worth a read, and lots of useful links. (For the less computer-loving, click on the title to get to Monica’s post!)

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