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I could not love this more! 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕 . . . #gentleparenting #gentlemothering #gentlemama #mindfulparenting #mindfulmothering #peacefulparenting #attachmentparenting #instamum #instamomSpending most of this week book writing, tucked up under a blanket - because where has the sun gone?! 💻✒️📑📚🛌 . The subtitle is now agreed and up on Amazon! Next step, cover design (and actually finishing the writing 😂). . Any cover suggestion ideas? . . . #secondbabybook #thesecondbabybook #newbaby #secondbaby #secondbirth #newsibling #newbigbrother #newbigsister #vbac #hbac #electivecsection #siblingrivalry #secondpregnancy #secondtimearound #secondtimemum #secondtimemom #gentleparenting #positiveparenting #peacefulparenting #mindfulparenting #babycalm #toddlercalm #sarahockwellsmith #authorlife #amwriting #authorsofinstagramI love this quote. .💕💕 . I think it helps us to remember to lower the bar a bit with our expectations of our kids. . Stating the obvious, but kids aren't adults. We shouldn’t expect them to behave like them, or more importantly better than them! Because actually, adults often aren't that great. . . All adults have off days, days when they're rude, days when they lack impulse control, days where they say something unkind, days when they sulk, days when they can't be bothered to tidy. . . It's just not realistic to expect kids to never have off days. It's even more unrealistic to expect to be able to make them behave better than an adult. . Kids don't have the same level of brain development as an adult. Yet we expect them to be better than us. Lower the bar a little. Understand that your kid isn't misbehaving deliberately, they're just doing the best that they can with the level of neurological development that is appropriate to their age. . . . #gentleparenting #gentlediscipline #positiveparenting #positivediscipline #peacefulparenting #consciousparenting #mindfulparenting #naturalparenting #toddlercalm #gentlemothering #gentlemama #gentleparentinguk #childdevelopment #sarahockwellsmithIf you’re working on a Sunday, this is definitely the place to do it. Thanks for a great #gentlediscipline workshop Wiltshire! . . . #gentleparenting #positiveparenting #positivediscipline #authorlife #blueskyfordaysTop Posts & Pages
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Gentle Parenting – You Mean ‘Hippy, Pushover Parenting’? Busting Ten Gentle Parenting Myths.
…if people ask me to explain gentle parenting in a nutshell I always say the same “treating children how we would like to be treated ourselves”. To this day I don’t understand why it is so controversial, except perhaps that we don’t treat ourselves very well? Continue reading
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Gentle Parenting: the Myths, the Misquotes and the Mis-reporting.
Yesterday I was contacted by a journalist who was writing an article for The Sun newspaper (a large UK newspaper) asking me about gentle parenting for an article. This would have been a good opportunity to present a factual, evidence based article, instead she … Continue reading
Aiming for 70/30: When ‘Good Enough Parenting’ is Enough
All parents make mistakes, all parents have days that they are not proud of. All parents make sacrifices and compromises. No parent is perfect. It is these mistakes that are the most important in terms of our growth as parents. Each time we don’t quite do our best we can learn and we can teach our children how to handle disappointm Continue reading
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What is Gentle Parenting – an Excerpt from The Gentle Parenting Book
Let’s get this out there right now. Gentle parenting isn’t permissive parenting. For those who are new to gentle parenting, perhaps practitioners of more mainstream methods, the most common criticism is relating to supposed permissiveness. They are wrong. Boundaries, limits and discipline play a crucial role in gentle parenting. If you do not discipline your child how can you be truly respectful of them? Continue reading
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