What People Think Gentle Parenting Is vs. What It Really Is

We can let our fears that our kids aren’t learning or making good choices sabotage our ability to set compassionate AND effective limits.

✨ When we shift our focus to the relationship - the brain is able to organize to help kids meet our expectations.

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[oceanabreden]

I like thinking of gentle parenting as a more realistic approach with child behavior. Yes, your toddler is gonna throw things at you, bc they're a toddler, that doesn't mean you need to start screaming and hitting the child, if there can be a calm approach to the situation, there should be.

[relentlessrhythm]

This is how you model effective communication, an important life skill many of us had to learn during adulthood.

[BennytheBoxador]

This is a very accurate representation 💪🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤new sub 🎉

[teppens]

Id say its more about effective communication and actually talking to your children respectfully and not looking down on them. Theyre human too

[MrVaughn]

Talking to them like friends at a coffee shop…. Girl prepare to be ran over lol

[bowmanzz]

Mirror Mirror on the wall, whose the most gentle parent of them all???

[angeloliver]

Now I'm curious how the first version works xD

[naekkischlumpf]

What gentle parenting is... Useless, that's what it is.
Being strict without screaming and violence is more effective and puts less responsibility on the child. Instead of them having to wrap their head around why there are behaviours okay or not they can acknowledge them and move on. "Sweety, I acknowledge your desire for movement and play but I would like you to know that it might be dangerous if you just run off on the road without looking for traffic. Could you please consider this next time?" gets your child run over.

"NAME! You STAY right THERE and WAIT!" is effective, you raised your voice and you can than proceed to explain WHY and the consequences if not obbeyed and buy that I don't mean, "you could get hurt" but "you go inside and the trip to playground is off" or "you get of your bike and walk home".

[tisheikarickard-whyte]

I'm sorry I don't know what got me thinking about oranges 😆😆😆
But just to get the gist of things 😆😆😆
I meant a logical consequence for the action.

[Frostboy]

I think people don’t know the difference between punishment and abuse

[SW-uisj]

So if your child is 11 and throws paper in your face, and you ask them please dont do that, its very annoying and a little disrespectful, , why did you do that, and then they go and throw paper in your face again whilst laughing as they think its funny or a joke, are you going to ask why again ? Or maybe you ask for time out, please go to your room, your 11 year old says no i dont want to thanks, you have to physically ecsort child to the room and then child kicks door, bangs things around, maybe breaks something, then are we still gentle parenting after this behaviour ? How would a gentle parent deal with this behaviour.

[JasmineOwen-lnvs]

Not saying talking to your child doesn't work in some cases but not all sometimes you you have to use a different type of parenting i see why so many teachers are quiting most children in school now have no respect

[dlqfzuk]

Im sorry, but not demonstrating authority, boundries completely harms children as they get sent it to a world were they have no self awareness or abilty to adhere to authority. You don't need to be physically or verbally abusive. But responding with a stern tone gives the immediate cue to the child that throwing things in people's faces is never allowed. Why is guidance and instruction a bad thing. Parenting is very difficult...you're tasked with preparing a human being for the real world and then letting that piece of your heart walk into the world. Nothing about parenting is supposed to be gentle.

[lieshabeachum]

Right, like the kid isn’t going to do it again. 😂😂😂😂😂

[cherylmockotr]

I actually thought "gentle parenting" was a joke to make fun of Gen Z... can't believe it's real! In fact, I know it's not real in yhe privacy of their homes, or when there's no camera on them.

[adamcanne]

Okay now finish the vid with how “gentle parenting” is when the kid does it again seconds after you told them not to, and then deal with the physical temper tantrum when they start breaking shit following it