Hello, and welcome to Child Proof by Betches Media. I'm Guinales Lund, and I'm Tori Phantom.

This episode goes out to all the people who email us. We do read those, and we love your

stories, fails, wins, and questions. In fact, we love them so much. This episode is made

up of folks who emailed us. Welcome to our second email roundup.

That would have been cool if it was all echoey and epic, like,

like, but cool. Yeah, yeah, it would have been, but I don't know. I don't know how to do that.

I don't either, but I do know how to set the timer. So let's do that.

Okay, here we go. So our first email comes from Betty J. We have shielded personal

information. So Betty J asked us, can you gentle parent a one-year-old? I'm trying desperately

to gentle parent use positive reinforcement and the like, but occasionally a sharp note

has to be used. My problem is that he seems to listen to nothing, whether it be gentle or sharp.

What is an effective way to get the point across without evolving into constantly yelling?

This is a great question. It's a great question with a seemingly disappointing answer.

Yes, I want to be clear here that my answer is not commissending or dismissive,

but when we are talking about a one-year-old, the parenting is different. The parenting is so different

before our kids can effectively communicate with us and we're just kind of talking at them,

hoping they understand. So it takes time. It takes time, and I also think it might be

really beneficial for you to change the way you are viewing gentle parenting,

because gentle parenting at its core is not just sounding like misreach a lot of time,

and never showing any sort of negative emotion. It is okay that you use a sharp note sometimes

with a one-year-old. It's important. I mean, it's that kind of thing. It goes back to that old saying

of, would you rather yell at your kid because they're about to touch the hot stove or let them touch it?

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