[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Kids need to have stability, order, routine, safety and certainty in their lives.

They are small, soft and vulnerable and they know it.

You remove those thing and tell the child to "figure it out for themselves" and they can't.

[CFW]

“Kids need to have stability, order, routine, safety and certainty in their lives.
They are small, soft and vulnerable and they know it.

You remove those thing and tell the child to “figure it out for themselves” and they can’t.”

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That is so true. Parents are doing their children no favors by the permissive or “gentle parenting” that so many are now practicing. Their children grow up with no empathy, no recognition of boundaries, and no ethics. Then at age 17 or 18 they join ANTIFA and the parent’s role switches to banker and bail-bondsman.

[GrannyAnn]

You nailed it. I would only add love and acceptance.

If you do it right, you should be able to control your children with a stern look.