• Instead of Medicating and Punishing: Healing the causes of our children's acting-out behavior by parenting and educating the way nature intended, By Laurie A. Couture, Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, Oregon, 2008.

• Spare the Rod: Why you shouldn't hit your kids, By Alan E. Kazdin, Slate, September 24, 2008

• The no-cry discipline solution, By Elizabeth Pantley, McGraw HIll, 2007

• Spanking is like fast food, By Wendy Kerr Hadley, globeandmail.com, July 1, 2008

• Parenting: The line between punishment and abuse, By Melanie Barwick, Ph.D.

• Rethinking Discipline, By Annie Addington

• Positive Discipline: How to avoid power struggles by Judy Arnall

• The Nurturing Parent by Ross Ellis

• What every parent should know by Dr. Thomas Gordon

• The Power of Peace by Mitch Hall and Madeleine Y. Gómez, Ph.D.

• Discipline 101: Strategies That Work by Dr. Marilyn Heins

• 22 Alternatives to Losing It by Jan Hunt

• What Horses Taught Monty Roberts About Wisdom In Parenting by Norm Lee

• A word about healthy discipline by Michael J. Marshall

• Instead of Hitting by Peggy O'Mara

• Encounter in a parking lot, June 2008

• Facing down a drill sergeant dad by Jordan Riak

• Old Woman in a Shoe by Jordan Riak

• An Alternative to Spanking? by Jordan Riak

• Twenty Alternatives to Punishment by Aletha Solter, Ph.D.

• The parenting style of President and First Lady Lincoln, as described by Mariah Vance, their housekeeper

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