Tag: gentle parenting
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Verbal Judo: Unsolicited Advice (part one)
Summary: The Collective Belief of Unsolicited Advice There are 2 types of unsolicited advice (from my experience). One is the well known, you didn’t ask for the advice but were given some anyway thereby, making it unsolicited. A step further is when advice is given and no problem is presented. It’s when you share a…
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The One Truth and One Big Lie about Yelling
Summary: Yelling has one universal truth, it comes from emotions like anger, frustration, shame, fear, etc. Our negative emotions. We don’t usually yell at someone when we’re feeling happy or grateful. Our negative emotions, especially the ones that are fast and highly reactive like anger give us little room to stop our default reaction of…
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There’s no such thing as a bad parent
When I tell someone this, the most common reaction is to prove it wrong. “But what about in this situation…” Whatever the situation, no one ever comes to an agreement on the definition of a bad parent. But for fun, let’s put out the common ones. A bad parent = beating, neglecting, manipulating, punishing, spoiling,…
Tara Rama 