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At Echo Parenting & Education, we’re dedicated to reimagining the parent/child dynamic. We offer program participants a whole new way of looking at family building. We help people throughout the community move away from fear-based judging toward empathetic nurturing. And we’re all about raising children with care and building loving, respectful families. We’re here to make the world a better place for children to grow!

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Alfie Kohn: My Hero – An Excerpt from Jennifer Lehr

…During the second part of the talk he laid out eight guidelines of Work With Parenting.
Before listing and describing them, Kohn explained that he wasn’t there to tell us what to do or say to your kids. He doesn’t know us and he doesn’t know our kids. It would be as presumptuous as it would be [...]

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Spanking Debate Strikes Out

No, you shouldn’t. Yes, you should.

First newsletter of the new year, and here we go again, debating spanking. The Los Angeles Times printed this article just over a week ago, and then some letters of response, including one by Barbara Schwarz, a graduate of our Parent Educator Certification Program (go Barbara!)

If you’re a regular reader of this newsletter, [...]

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