Is 'Gentle Parenting' Too Extreme and Impossible?
Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled
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What Is Gentle Parenting?
" gentle parenting, to me, is the ethos of teaching and disciplining in an emphatic way that is never punitive or emotionally reactive on the parent's part," she says. "I'm thinking about your question, what would be helpful? Maybe it's just permiss to be gentle ish, capable ish." She adds: "It helps me understand that i'm coming across as this voice of authority that's telling you you should do it this way, and if you're not, there's something wrong you"
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