I became involved with mentoring through Lifeways just over a year ago.  At that time, the program was in its infancy.  The program is under the direction of Sandra Shelton and is supervised by Jennifer Yturriondobetia, who has been the driving force behind this program.  In a way, the program is like Big Brothers and Big Sisters but it is more structured and goes much deeper.  The local Lifeways mentoring program involves...

Simply put, natural consequences are those results that follow an action. For example, if you eat too much at Thanksgiving your stomach hurts for a few hours.

Natural consequences can be a great tool for parents and care givers to use in disciplining their children. A parent or caregiver does not become the proverbial bad guy or girl and they do not require parents or care givers to develop or enforce creative punishments.

So here is an example of a natural consequence...

You may remember old movies like So You Married an Ax Murderer: the general storylines are about mentally ill people who terrorize or kill people. These movies might be funny, or maybe scary, and sometimes just plain gruesome. But like most movies, this type is not realistic – there’s a reason it’s called fiction. The problem is that...