Pitfalls of Redirecting Children and Yourself
Summary
- Action swapping is the adult form of the parenting advice of redirecting.
- Action swapping is switching out one action that you want to stop for another. (Yelling to practice self-care or substitute one diet for another).
- Behavioural problems are emotional problems.
- Redirection (gentle parenting) is giving a child another action to stop the unwanted action.
- When it comes to safety with a child, there’s a hard limit and where redirection isn’t needed.
- Other behaviours (hitting, screaming, kicking) we use redirection to show them an alternative behaviour.
- Through redirection, we never deal with the root cause of the hitting; what is causing the hitting.
- We try as parents to manage behaviours instead of looking at the emotions.
Tara Rama 