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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think some nice people with ill behaved kids have been poorly served by the positive/gentle parenting movement. A video just came up on my social media with some “expert” claiming that kids go into fight or flight mode when we use 1-2-3 countdowns to try to get them to stop (or start) doing something. And that instead parents should “invite the child to move into something else”. Like what? On what planet does that actually work? Parents have been made to feel so afraid that a child might feel a negative emotion as a result of something the parent says to them because these dump parenting experts keep telling them it’s so bad for kids’ nervous systems to be upset. Our brains are capable of experiencing a full range of emotions for a reason! If a kid is upset because there’s a consequence for acting feral, so be it. That is how we become socialized. [/quote]

I'm curious what percentage of parents are actually getting this advice? I've never heard any advice against countdowns.

I think most parents just try what works best. And many of us just use screens too much with our kids because they are easy. I'm guilty of it too. I am horribly addicted to my phone and when I'm on it DC wants a screen too. I'm working on it. I do think the role of "gentle parenting" is overstated. I think screens have a bigger impact than we realize.[/quote]

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