Laurie A. Couture

Laurie is the author of Instead of Medicating and Punishing: Healing the Causes of Our Children’s Acting-Out Behavior by Parenting and Educating the Way Nature Intended. She appears in the documentary film, The War On Kids (2009) and she is the host of The Free and Joyful Childhood Radio Show.

Laurie specializes in helping parents heal their children’s emotional, behavioral and learning struggles through attachment parenting, natural learning and alternatives to psychiatric drugs. She offers supportive Attachment Parenting and unschooling coaching, consultation and workshops through LaurieACouture.com.

Laurie has a background as a trauma specialist and mental health counselor and has worked for years with severely traumatized youth and families. She has unique insights into the domineering institutions of education, mental health, psychiatry and foster care and how to rescue and heal children from
these institutions. For ten years Laurie ran a volunteer children’s rights website, ChildAdvocate.org, which exposed society’s most overlooked forms of child maltreatment. Laurie’s passionate, sobering writing and advocacy on behalf of children and families have reached an international audience.

As an artist she writes and illustrates,  The Hypocrisy Chronicles comic.  Laurie is a proud unschooling Mom to her 17 year old son, Brycen, a metal vocalist who just released his first CD.

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