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Why It’s Wrong to Withhold Gentleness to Show Our Kids How “The Real World Works” [blogs.psychcentral.com]

 

By W.R. Cummings, Psych Central, June 14, 2019. 

How many times have you heard a parent say something like, “If I baby my kids, they’ll never know how the real world works.”

Or maybe they’ve said things like, “How will they learn to keep going if I teach them it’s okay to stop when things get hard?”

Or maybe they talk about people who are “whiney” because they want their feelings to be validated.

Or maybe they think therapy and counseling are both a bunch of crap.

We all know parents (or maybe we ARE those parents) who believe these things. Oftentimes, without even realizing it, we begin to associate gentle parenting with permissive parenting. We withhold tenderness from our children because we think it would do them a disservice and stunt their resilience. We think that gentleness teaches less than firmness.

Here’s the thing, though… your kids don’t need you to teach them how hard life can be. Life will do that for them.

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