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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because no one has told us how to parent! We get not to spank or yell, but gentle parenting is HELL ON EARTH for parents. I think gentle parenting is leading the mental health crisis. But yes, let me stay calm and sane while kids tantrum, throw things and won't do anything you tell them to do. I think to effectively gentle parent you need to be on Prozac or Valium. We talk about emotions nonstop with our kids and what to do when they have big feelings.

Well you know what? Mommy has big feelings about no one ever listening, about the house being a disaster, about you not eating dinner, about you hitting me. Clearly no one cares about parents though and we're just the sacrificial lambs to gentle parenting. I have a feeling by the time millennials are done parenting, we're going to be so checked out that we'll never be able to grandparent or see our kids again as adults. Or we'll be in the psych wards.[/quote]

You don’t have to subscribe to what’s the parenting trend du jour is. Trust your instincts. It’s ok to yell sometimes. It’s ok to lose your cool. It’s good for your kids to see you as a human with normal emotions. It’s good for them to see you mess up a bit and correct course. I dare say it’s even good for them to feel a tiny bit of that long lost emotion called shame in some cases. I’m not sure who you were expecting to tell you these things. Learning to parents is a process. When something’s not working for you, try something different.[/quote]

I doubt it. Go listen to What Gen Z is saying about Gen X parenting. They're ALL in therapy over the one time their parents yelled.[/quote]

And I doubt that they really need therapy, or if they do, it’s their parents yelling that made it so. They’ve been had by the pharmaceutical and therapy industries.[/quote]

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