Parenting
fromPsychology Today
1 hour agoRethinking Gentle Parenting
Gentle parenting can backfire if parents confuse sympathy with empathy, leading to a lack of accountability in children.
Thanks to the trend for gentle parenting, the concept of big feelings has become big money online, and for the most part I welcome that (Big Feelings isn't the only song that reflects this cultural shift; the animation Small Potatoes on CBeebies has a song that goes Feelings / I've got so many feelings, which my husband likes to sing to me when I'm premenstrual).