Dr. Alice Davidson, a professor of developmental psychology, is one of the few academics to have actually studied gentle parenting – and she shares her research
I don’t know if I would describe my wife as I as gentle parents but she is a school social worker by trade so we do a lot the same social emotional emphasis and strategies for self-regulating. But what works for one of our children, doesn’t work for the others.
Sometimes its ok to say “I don’t have time for your bullshit” (not literally of course) and just set boundaries and remove privileges or remove the child from the situation when those boundaries are crossed.
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I don’t know if I would describe my wife as I as gentle parents but she is a school social worker by trade so we do a lot the same social emotional emphasis and strategies for self-regulating. But what works for one of our children, doesn’t work for the others.
Sometimes its ok to say “I don’t have time for your bullshit” (not literally of course) and just set boundaries and remove privileges or remove the child from the situation when those boundaries are crossed.