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Arms of Love Family Fellowship

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      • Using ‘As Soon As’
      • Teaching Leaving Successfully
      • Teaching “No Hitting”
      • Teaching “No Lying”
      • Teaching him respect…
      • Teaching them to be responsible for own behavior – HOW?
    • Manager or Leader?
    • Active Parenting
    • Obedience, or Idolatry?
    • Consequences…
    • Natural Consequences
    • If the rules are posted, are consequences punitive?
    • Boundaries
    • Resolution Skills and Boundary Setting
    • Feelings
    • Nice vs. Kind
    • Kindness vs. Obedience
    • Do Unto Others
    • What About Forgiveness?
    • Feeling Good, Acting Good
    • Going Against
    • Right vs. Judgemental
    • The Myth of Needing to Get Away
    • Motivation or Manipulation – is there a difference?
    • Dealing With Annoying Behavior
    • How to Have Self-Esteem
    • How do you keep it playful?
    • Choices and Meltdowns…
    • Should I Compromise With Them?
    • Potty Readiness
    • Directions
    • Now What?
    • GBD and Deployment
    • How do you handle it when…?
      • What do you do when….?
      • A Matter of Age…
      • Age Appropriate?
      • How does this work for my little ones?
      • Coping With Babies and Toddlers
      • Aggressive Toddlers
        • My toddler keeps hitting my baby!
        • What about biting?
      • Ages One to Three
        • She wants to play all the time!
        • She won’t stop sticking out her tongue!
        • Tantrums
      • Ages Four to Six
        • When will he ever stop hurting me?
        • How do I deal with sassiness?
        • My 4-year-old is so bossy!
      • As Children Get Older — How to Prune and Pull Weeds
      • Why are they so much worse in restaurants?!
      • Boys who hit
      • Hitting for attention
      • My child won’t obey unless I promise him a reward!
      • What about those intense emotional storms?
      • Silly rules vs Real rules – won’t they get confused?
  • Spare The Rod
    • Spare the Rod…
    • History of Spanking
    • What’s the Difference?
    • Punishment in the Old Testament
    • The Rod or Shebet: An In-Depth Examination
    • An Answer to Proverbs 23 and ‘beatest’
    • Hebrews 12
    • False Doctrine of Spanking
    • The Spanking Files
    • The Spanking Files II
    • What About Other Punishments?
    • The Ironic Dynamic
    • The Standard
    • Punishment as a Last Resort
  • Spoil the Child?
    • Spoil the Child?
    • TCS
  • Sermons
    • Echad
    • Submission
    • How to Make Your Husband Feel Like a King
    • Standing in the Gap
    • Where is God When I Need Him?
    • Righteous Parenting
      • The Ways of the Tzaddikim
        • The First Gate — The Gate of Pride
        • The Second Gate — The Gate of Humility
        • The Gate of Shame
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About AOLFF

The Arms of Love Family Fellowship, founded by Crystal Lutton, is a ministry devoted to mentoring moms and dads in a positive discipline approach called Grace Based Discipline.  This method has demonstrated success with people with special needs, large groups of children and one-on-one situations, with short term and long term results.

The GBD Alternative to Traditional Time-Outs

Punitive parenting is adversarial. It pits parents against children in what many punitive experts openly refer to as a war. Even Dr. Phil talks about “picking your battles” and warns parents that when you pick them you had better make sure that you “win” them. But as Christians we are told that our battle is […]

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