I thought about what I had learned about gentle parentingThe voices of gentle parenting experts — more accurately, the Instagram posts by certain accounts such as Big Little Feelings and Responsive Parenting — ran on loops in my mind.
As we waded deeper into toddlerhood, it became clear that gentle parenting — on top of being impractical — was sucking all of the joy out of parenthood.
AdvertisementI gave up on gentle parentingI officially gave up on gentle parenting when my second daughter was born, leaving me with two kids under two.
Gentle parenting is gentle on kids but hard on parents.
AdvertisementSo, I've exchanged gentle parenting for a more lighthearted, trial-and-error approach.
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