All right, so you want to parent your kids well, but you don't want to repeat the same mistakes your parents did.

What do we do when we know that spanking doesn't work and requiring instant obedience can be a problem long term, but you don't want to turn the other direction and just be a total pushover.

That's what we're going to talk about today on the bear marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Gregor from bearmarriage.com where we like to talk about healthy, evidence-based, biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage.

And all of that kind of has repercussions on your parenting too. So we have an amazing parenting coach and author to talk to us today, Wendy Snyder, who's been on the podcast several times. And I'm so excited to bring her to you. Before we do that, just a special shout out and thank you to all the people who make what we do possible. Our patrons and those who donate to the Good Fruit Faith Initiative of the Bosco Foundation. That's what allows us to do our research, to get our stuff in peer-reviewed journals, to do our translation work, and you'll be hearing more about what we're doing with Spanish coming up pretty soon and more. So if you want to join our patron for as little as $5 a month, you get access to our incredible Facebook group, or if you have some money that you want a tax deductible receipt

for, please consider giving to the Goodfrey Faith Initiative of the Bosco Foundation. And you can

find more in the podcast notes. And now, without further ado, here is our interview with Wendy.

Okay, people, we are so thrilled to have Wendy Snyder, our favorite parenting person from

Fresh Art Families on the podcast.

Wendy, hello.

Hello, ladies.

Thank you for having me today.

I am so happy to be here.

We are trying to figure out if this is three or four.

We think it's your fourth time here.

Oh, good an honor. People have just really related to so much of what you've said and, but yeah,

different ways of doing parenting and rethinking how we're doing parenting. And your new book is out

next week. It is officially here, ladies. I get to be in the author club now. I have, I know,

cheered you guys on through many of your books that you've put out. And this is fun.

This is fun to put your body of work into pages and get it into readers' hands. So I'm

excited to be here and be talking about this new book. I'm going to do a test for you. Okay. Do you know what your subtitle is? So the title is fresh start your family, right? Do you know your subtitle? Because I can never remember any of mine. We don't know any of our subtitles. Are you kidding me? No, we can't ever remember them. Powerful parenting to restore peace in your home. I have really, I used to refer to my body

of work as positive parenting. And now I've really just settled into the term powerful

parenting because I feel like it really represents well what we do here because we help parents

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