“Just to both of us getting frustrated.”Therein lies the problem: Gentle parenting is proving to be too hard on many parents.
One study published in July found that over 40% of self-identified gentle parents teeter toward burnout and self-doubt because of the pressure to meet parenting standards.
A wave of think pieces called gentle parenting “too gentle” of a practice that required a parent to turn into a “self-renouncing, perpetually present humanoid.”The gentle parenting philosophy, said Pezalla, is largely a social media trend with no scholarship to back it up.
Enter gentle parenting.
In theory, gentle parenting has great values to apply to parenting practices — speak kindly and honor connections.
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