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Gentle Parenting, Discipline & Boundaries, Parent Wellbeing Lauren Greeno Gentle Parenting, Discipline & Boundaries, Parent Wellbeing Lauren Greeno

Gentle Parenting Not Working? Why It Feels So Hard (and What Actually Helps)

Gentle parenting gets a lot of scrutiny from being too permissive, to too taxing on adults who are taught to stay calm at all times and validate every emotion. But what happens when we don’t feel gentle parenting is working? Usually its because a limit, a step or a bandwidth is missing from the equation. Dive into what the research actually says about gentle parenting, the myths that keep haunting it and testing parents, and what actually helps you breath through with your child.

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Child Development, Parent Wellbeing, Presence and Connection, School-Age Children Lauren Greeno Child Development, Parent Wellbeing, Presence and Connection, School-Age Children Lauren Greeno

Why Having Fun Is a Parenting Strategy, Not a Luxury

High-achieving parents often build extraordinary lives and quietly stop enjoying them. Child development research has something specific to say about that — and it has less to do with self-care than with what your child's nervous system is doing every time you walk into the room.

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