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  1. Marissa Danney says:

    Hi Monica,
    I’m currently reading Boy Mom and finding such relief in it! I have a 3 year old, sweet and rambunctious boy. (Or is that all of them?)
    I’m reading your chapter on discipline and was hoping you might address what to do with the hitting/biting stage. What swift discipline works best? I’m not totally against spanking, and yet I feel hypocritical hitting his bum when I just said, “we don’t hit.” The best option I’ve found is to limit his limbs and firmly tell him he must be gentle and we don’t hit. But I need some discipline for when he’s not listening!
    Any suggestions? If you’ve written on this somewhere else, please point me in that direction!

    Thanks 🙏🏽
    Marissa (California)

    1. Hi Marissa! Thank you so much for the kind words and that is a great question. I am working on a podcast episode about discipline to share in a few weeks so stay tuned for that! I’ll try to include your specific question in there!
      xo

  2. “I found this article to be both informative and helpful. I have been struggling with my child’s behavior recently, and this article has given me a lot of good ideas for how to respond in the future. I also enjoyed reading some of the other articles on their site, as they are all well written.”

  3. Christine Hodge says:

    so much wisdom! my oldest son is almost 2 and I hope our home is one that has clear boundaries and expectations but also one of love

  4. This was really helpful thank you!

  5. I appreciate this post so much! I can error on the side of being too much of a friend to my sons, and I see how that makes them less respectful of me. I have to remind them over and over what is respectful, what to “put off” and what to “put on.” I like to use the phrase from Wendy Speake, “ Try again.” That signals to the boys that what they said was not quite right. They can usually figure out how to be more polite pretty fast with a gentle reminder 😅
    My boys are little though, so we are mostly working on respectful speech and manners. I’m sure I’ll need this blog post when they get into the teen years, but I pray a good foundation will help get us started!

  6. I love all your wisdom 🙌 boy mom to boy mom (I have three) it’s so hard raising kids but it’s reassuring to know I have Christian families (like you)who have done research and published it…. I love it most when you share Luc’s words 🥺😍🥺😍 He is such a solid young man.