Well, well, good morning, everybody.

Stephen Melanie from Freedom, Maine.

And I'm up a little early prior to the family.

So I wanted to talk about this article by Olga Kazan

from about a month ago.

And this influencer says, you can't parent too

gently. All right. So the article goes, the kids held it together pretty well until right

after gymnastics. At the end of a long day that included school, a chaotic play date, and a mostly ignored lunch of sandwiches,

the parenting coach Chelsea Haug Zavalleta picked up her twins from the tumbling gym around 5.30.

The two eight-year-olds joined their six-year-old sister.

Inside Chelsea's silver minivan.

Chelsea, an energetic 41-year-old, promotes gentle parenting, a philosophy in which

prioritizing a good relationship with your kid trumps getting them to obey you.

I was tacking along with her family for a few days to see how her strategy

stay calm, name emotions, and don't put kids for acting out, works in practice.

So it's not too hard to see the problem here, right?

The end of a long day that included school, a chaotic play date, and a mostly ignored lunch of sandwiches,

and a tumbling gym, or maybe the tumbling gym was the chaotic play date.

But this is something my daughter taught me,

I don't relatively early,

which is the best time with your kids.

I mean, look, sometimes I would take her,

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