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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll be the second teacher to weigh in here to say I’m very concerned when the “gentle parenting” kids reach my grade level. Don’t get me wrong — I was a pretty gentle parent, I expect, but I fear that parents have interpreted this movement to mean that their child doesn’t have to do anything they don’t want to do… which is often what school is.[/quote]

I think people blow this up into more than it is. The people most likely to use gentle parenting techniques are super involved parents who tend to be very engaged with their kids. Someone very engaged with their kid is unlikely to let their kid do whatever they want. My observation is that gentle parents are also the ones whose kids have minimal screen time and never get sugar. Those kids might not have any experience with being yelled at, but they have rules and know how to follow them.

The worst behaved kids are the ones whose parents gave up and just plant them on screens all day. That's not gentle parenting. Those are the kids who will quickly get bored in school because they aren't used to doing anything without distraction/entertainment, are more prone to outbursts because they have no emotional regulation skills beyond numbing bad feelings away with screens, and have the worst social skills.

Gentle parenting *sounds* annoying and is easy to make fun of, but there's no evidence it actually leads to more entitled kids. As has long been the case, it's parental neglect (including in the firm of letting phones/tablets babysit your kids) that results in the worst outcomes and make things hardest I'm teachers.[/quote]

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