Brian Laird on W.N.C. and our last 15 minutes or so of the show will be with a guest but for those

of you currently parenting children at home, 212-433, WNYC, on the question, how gentle should your parenting

style be?

Why do we ask last month the cut part of New York magazine

published a piece titled The Rise of the Accidentally Permissive Parent

documenting how the quote gentle parenting movement may be creating a generation

of boundaryless children whose needs are being put above the needs of their

parents respect rules and punishments have fallen to the wayside.

This theory goes as parents try to write the wrongs

of their own childhoods through raising their own children

in this way.

So listeners, does this sound like you,

or are you an advocate of gentle parenting?

What does that mean to you?

Do you find that you try to be a gentle parent but then your

children are kind of out of control and you can't keep them in within various

boundaries when you want to give us a call.

212, 433, WNYC.

I mean, parenting is hard and we're not here to judge

how people parent.

And for those of you of a certain age you might say haven't

we been having this conversation at least since like Dr. Spock in the 1950s and

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