Some experts believe what we are sometimes seeing today is not true gentle parenting, but rather an anxious drift into permissive parenting.
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For effective child-rearing outcomes, parenting should not be seen as fixed styles — authoritative or permissive — but as a flexible, adaptive process shaped by environment.
We can’t isolate human misery from its broader context. But while adverse environments play a role in the youth mental health crisis, culture is crucial too.
The gentle parenting movement has exploded in popularity on social media. But is it good for kids or parents?
We found each of the books tended to give parents one approach for dealing with their child’s sleep, rather than a range of options.
The best way to manage anger is to try to reduce the likelihood that these situations will arise. But even so, having a plan for what can you do when anger strikes is important.
Gentle parenting holds that parents should try to understand their child’s emotional state.
Encouraging positive associations with school, good temperament and keeping communication open between parents, children and teachers can help your child (and you) be more ready for this transition.
Should we teach our kids to share their things considering adults don’t share their possessions? Shouldn’t kids be taught not to use things that aren’t theirs? Maybe we should just let them figure things out for themselves.
Discipline is necessary for children, but we need to teach them to self-discipline, not bribe them to be good.
While 2013 was all about schools and their funding (remember Gonski, anyone?), 2014 was the year of higher education reform. Or, at least, proposed higher education “reform”. With cuts to higher education…
In a piece in The Conversation, Bernadette Saunders described positive discipline. Parents who practise positive discipline or gentle parenting use neither rewards nor punishments to encourage their children…
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Childhood Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Director, Parenting and Family Support Centre, The University of Queensland
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
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Professor of Child Health and Behaviour and Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, King's College London
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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PhD, Biological Anthropology, Université de Montréal
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, McMaster University