Here's an interview and Q&A session with Greg Lynn Weaver, Spiritual Director of the PeaceWeavers. The topic: "Peaceful Parenting When You Feel Like Wringing Their Necks."

Greg Lynn answered questions about:

• how peace is related to fitness and health
• what peaceful parenting looks like
• how we get peaceful when we’ve had a lousy day
• how we can practice peaceful parenting so we have the skills when we need them
• how to break the cycle of guilt that leads to poor choices that leads to guilt…
• how to not beat ourselves up over not being perfect
• whether expressing anger verbally is appropriate or bullying

This call is not for the faint-hearted. The "s-word" is used three times, and Mother Teresa is described as "ballsy." Greg Lynn is not a mountain-top theorist - he’s living in the real world, and his language is real as well. His gentle and compassionate style and great sense of humor can help us remember what’s really important as we go through the impossible and wonderful task of raising children.

Turn on your computer speakers, and you can listen right now to a 5-minute excerpt of the call, in which Greg Lynn helps a member explore her question about expressing anger toward her kids:

The entire call is available as a CD (and soon as an electronic transcript).