If you’re like most parents, you entered parenting knowing only the punishments-and-rewards approach your own parents used. But along the way, many of us have learned about gentle / respectful / conscious parenting. We’re intrigued, but we also wonder: Is gentle parenting actually effective? And when we raise our kids without punishments, are we preparing them for the real world?

In this week’s episode, I respond to a listener whose partner is asking these exact questions (which makes this a fantastic episode to share with anyone in your life who’s skeptical about gentle parenting!). I normalize this skepticism in the context of how most of us were raised – and I share why gentle parenting will absolutely prepare our kids for real world challenges.

Here’s the thing: It can be really hard – and even downright painful – to give our kids what we weren’t given, and we’re bound to get triggered in the process. But if we understand what’s actually happening in these moments (and that it has nothing to do with our kids!), we can better meet their needs and raise them in a way that actually prepares them for the real world. 

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