I recorded this episode a few times before finding what felt right because I didn’t want to just go over all the viral posts like the ones that said things like “gentle parenting is raising brats, gentle parenting has gone too far, we are raising kids who are too soft…” there were more but I think you get the point. I feel like that conversation’s already been done.

Instead I’m sharing what those posts brought up in me especially as someone who leaned hard on gentle parenting when I first became a mum. I thought if I just followed all the right scripts, I wouldn’t mess up my kids. But over time, it started to feel rigid. Robotic. Disconnected from what my kids and my nervous system actually needed.

In this episode, I talk about:

* Why gentle parenting stopped feeling good for me

* What I’ve found instead in high nurture parenting

* And how shifting away from perfection and into connection has been deeply healing

If you’re curious about high nurture, I highly recommend The Nurture Revolution by Dr. Greer Kirshenbaum.

I’d love to know what’s your experience with gentle parenting? Does it feel like it’s helping or like something’s missing?

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