…
Why Punishment Isn’t Teaching the Skill You Want.
Punishment didn’t fail because you did it wrong. It failed because it was never teaching the skill your kid actually needed. I’m Tricia Sutton, and along with my co-founder Henry Van Nostrand, we run Paws 4 Kids 4 Paws (paws4kids4paws.org), where we help neurodivergent kids build real skills — confidence, emotional regulation, communication — using a trust-first method we originally …