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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You give warnings meaning plural and it lets her know to keep ignoring you because she will just get another warning. Follow through with a consequence each and every time and things will change [/quote]

Gentle parenting forbids consequences except physical removal/“natural “ consequences.[/quote]

Why is this about "gentle parenting"? It's perfectly reasonable to combine choices with consequences for not complying within a reasonable time limit. No need to put an arbitrary label on it. [/quote]

Natural consequences also work 90 percent of the time. If I ask my kids to stop standing in the bath tub and they stand again, bath is over. They are less likely to do it tomorrow. If we are trying to go to the park and a kid won’t put on shoes, they stay home with the other parent and the other kid goes to the park. I did that once and now they know not to try it again. If it is something they are less motivated to do, then natural consequences are harder to define. But we do things like, teeth brushing comes before books and any last fun thing we do at bedtime. So if you don’t brush teeth you just go straight to bed and your door is closed. The nights we do that are usually the nights where they cry for 3 mins then just pass out bc the reason they were misbehaving is that they were so exhausted and needed sleep.

I get that this doesn’t work for everyone but I don’t think it’s lax and I think it gets great results for me. No complaints.[/quote]

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