Aunt criticizes mom for putting her 7-year-old son in time-out, gets indignant when she refuses to babysit her kids: ‘[She said] I should use gentle parenting instead’

Everybody has a different idea of «gentle parenting.» Some parents think that any kind of negativity directed at their little angels is inherently harmful and try to avoid it altogether. The wildest gentle parenting strategy I’ve seen is to never say «no» to your kid and instead guide them towards more desirable decisions. For instance, …
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‘Respect or obedience?’: Mom proves how easy ‘conscious parenting’ can be by using it on a nosey old man at the library

Only recently has it become somewhat mainstream for adults to encourage their children to question authority. Was this because of the hippies or the punks back in the day? Or does this date way back to the «rebels» during the revolutionary war? If history has proven anything, it is that questioning authority has its perks. …
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