In this Ericaism, Erica Campbell talks about combatting the urge to procrastinate. She says she connects procrastination with laziness and failure, and therefore tries to take her work so seriously that she steers away from the temptation to procrastinate. She makes sure she plans things, and surrounds herself with disciplined people who can help her […]

In this edition of Love Talking, Erica Campbell opens up on her experience of going home for the first time after a long stretch of traveling. She says in these times, she still has to reprimand her kids despite the fact that she missed them so much and would rather not have to spend time […]

Erica Campbell recalls hanging out at her grandma’s house as kid with all of her siblings. If any of the kids acted up, Erica recalls, their grandma wouldn’t be mean or yell at them, she would pray at them. In this way she would reprimand them in love, as opposed to being antagonistic or spiteful. […]

A S.C. school board investigates a teacher accused of throwing a 6-year-old girl's shoes in the trash and making her walk barefoot. The girl's parents want her disciplined.

A Georgia woman got into trouble with the authorities after disciplining her child by beating and berating her and streaming it on Facebook live, to add an extra layer of humiliation to an already abusive situation. While we can all agree that the measures this woman went to in order to discipline her child were […]

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The NAACP is getting involved in the controversial arrest of mega church preacher, Creflo Dollar. Creflo Dollar was arrested on June 8th on charges of simple battery and cruelty to children after an altercation with his 15 year old daughter, but the NAACP calls is discipline. “Today, many parents in any household have vivid recollections […]