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Dec 2020
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Welcome Dr. Vanessa La Pointe to Give He...

MICHELLE KENNEY, M. ED
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Welcome Dr. Vanessa La Pointe! If you don't know who she is you must get to know her and her work. She has several books on parenting which have personally given me so much insight. She is a therapist who works with families and parents to help them come to parenting with more connection and less conventional wisdom. Please listen in as she and Michelle talk about how punishments just don't work. 



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