Yo, yo, good morning, everybody.

This is M. M. On you from Freedom Main.

So a couple of minutes on gentle parenting.

Gentle parenting to me is different from peaceful parenting.

So peaceful parenting is peace, right, which is do not use violence or intimidation

or size of strength or control or bullying or aggression to get your way. So it just says peace,

right? It's not a positive prescription, right? You can negotiate your way out of conflicts

just about any way. So basically it's the equivalent of don't steal, right? So if you have a rule

called don't steal, it says you can acquire property in any legitimate way, you just can't steal, right? So if you have a rule called don't steal, it says you can acquire property

in any legitimate way, you just can't steal, right? That's fairly reasonable, right? And so

peaceful parenting simply says, use peace, right? Do not use violence or aggression, size,

strength, intimidation in your dealings with others.

It is consistent with how you're supposed to deal with adults, of course.

So this is why I called it peaceful parenting.

Now, gentle parenting, though, is a positive prescription, right?

So thou shalt not steal is a negative prescription, which a thou shalt not means you can do anything else, right?

Just don't steal, and you can do anything else.

Now, general parenting, though, is a positive prescription, right?

So if I said that the only way to be moral is to be in a profession where you are nice and helpful

to the sick and elderly right you have to be nice and gentle to the sick and elderly. Well, that would be a

positive prescription, and that would be tyrannical, right? So gentle parenting is tyrannical,

because how are you supposed to know that gentleness is the right response? So, for instance,

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