Is my new book ‘How to Raise a Gentle Man‘ just a gentle parenting book for raising boys? I’ve been asked this question A LOT since I announced it, so thought I’d answer it in a little video. In short: Yes and no. It’s not just more of the same. It’s something very different. GentleContinue reading “Raising boys with gentle parenting”
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What Makes a Good School? (Hint – it’s Not in the Report)
This is a guest blog, from headteacher Rob Dell, who also wrote THIS article (about whether mainstream schooling and gentle parenting can ever mix: When I meet new parents at our school, they often arrive armed with the usual tools: performance tables, Ofsted grades, league positions. I understand why. These are the official signals—public-facing indicatorsContinue reading “What Makes a Good School? (Hint – it’s Not in the Report)”
Why you should embrace ‘Jenga Parenting’ with your older children and teenagers
You build the secure groundworks in infancy and then, little by little, day by day, you construct a tower of supportive scaffolding as you meet your child’s needs. Once that tower is complete, it’s time to remove the scaffolding boards, or Jenga blocks, one by one, little by little, at the pace of your own unique child. If you try to remove a block and things get a little wobbly, you reinstate it and continue to provide that support, but still with an eye on ‘letting go’ (no matter how much your instincts may be screaming at you to ‘hold on’.
Sarah Ockwell-Smith 