Hi I’m Eric and I am a dad and a parent coach.
Certified by the Jai Institute for Parenting, I am an advocate for non-violent, connected parenting, which is a lifestyle approach to raising children without any coercion, threats or use of force.
My goal on this website is to share my opinions and advice on topics related to parenting.
You can read more in depth about me here, as well as why anyone would want to listen to my advice. As of 2025, I also have been writing at ifsrecovery.com and ifsbasics.com.
What I believe about raising children
I believe we give our children the best chances of success in life by treating them with love and respect, as equals among us, not as second class citizens to be ordered around, shouted down at, disrespected and abused.
I don’t believe that it’s ever necessary to spank, punish, threaten, shame or mistreat children in any way. In fact, those kinds of “tough-love” authoritarian approaches are ineffective, harmful, and should be avoided as much as possible.
There is a better way to raise children, and my goal is to help parents learn how.
It’s time for a paradigm shift in the way children are treated.
We need to move away from strict authoritarian parenting practices such as punishing, shaming, threatening, manipulating, spanking and other types of physical and emotional mistreatment.
And we need to move towards non-violent, non-punitive, mindful, connected and respectful parenting.
If you are new to me and my website, read this article first:
10 Things Every Beginner to Peaceful Parenting Should Know
Watch my March 2016 interview with consciousness-expansion teacher Evita Ochel of Evolving Beings:
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Join my Facebook group (now at over 26,000 members) >> Peaceful Parenting Community.
Read my blog to start learning about the principles of positive, conscious parenting.
Here is a list of recommended best parenting books.
I’m 68 and am falling in love with Facebook, and guys like you. It is the kind of love the world needs. Love for a message that has been in my heart since I can remember. Advocating for respectful treatment of the babies and children is happening! Thank you…thank you…than you! I invented a Skin-to-Skin newborn carrier as my ‘statement’ to the world that separating mother and baby, was a cruel and human practice, but hesitate to say so openly. Instead, hope to change how we welcome babies into the world by providing s tool for new mothers (Dad’s is in the works) that facilitates this change. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and evidence based research is behind me, and my voice is getting stronger. I’d love to connect, if for no other reason than to fell less alone. Change is happening!
Very interested in what you do. I believe in your way of thinking. It’s very hard though. So I would like to follow you and read on how to connect with my two young boys. I am referring this to daddy as well. So we both can learn from you and be on the same page. We love our boys with all our hearts. They are the world to us. So this will be a positive thing to do. Whatever it takes to make them happy and us as well. Thank you!