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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of us use “gentle” parenting tactics and don’t let our kids do whatever they want and don’t spend an hour getting our kids dressed. All without being authoritarian.

If you weren’t so busy making fun of us, predicting our kids will “have problems in K”, and pouting, we’d share our secrets. But you do you! 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️[/quote]

That's great for you. Since it's working for you, it sounds like you are not the type of parent that poster is talking about.

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I mean, the posters complaining about non-authoritarian parents are just throwing up straw men. “I know a woman with messy kids!” “I’ve heard kids raised this way do terrible in K!” Etc. It’s not a real argument.

I know parents across the spectrum of authoritarian and their kids all seem to be doing fine. I really can’t think of any kids who I think have been over-accommodated. I know kids with behavioral issues but the don’t have “gentle” parents.

I think y’all are tilting at windmills here. Maybe it makes you feel good to imagine parents who make other choices having a terrible time with their kids? Seems weird if you are actually happy with your choices.[/quote]
Who is imagining anything? We witness parenting all the time: at the store, in the waiting room, at the playground. And the can-we-make-a-good-choice-Larlo? mother impotently wrestling her purse and dignity from her wild preschooler isn’t helping him at all. The worst part is that spending 20 minutes offering Larlo useless choices at Starbucks only serves to make other adults secretly despise him, which will be much, much worse for his life outcomes than forcing him to just eat the damn string cheese or nothing.[/quote]

Thank you. Here's the thing: if you don't know EXACTLY the type of parent were talking about, you are probably that type of parent. [/quote]

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