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Welcome to Raising Good Humans podcast. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman, and today I'm having a conversation

about gentle parenting, like what is the deal with gentle parenting?

Now, you've heard this conversation before potentially because I have been talking about it for years.

But a lot of people have been forwarding me this article written in the Wall Street Journal entitled, goodbye gentle parenting.

Hello, F around, and Find Out.

And the idea is your kids are going to F around and then they're going to find out the consequences.

And the alternative, according to the article, is like, this is a backlash against gentle parenting.

And we're going to dive into all of this in the conversation with Dr. Tina Payne

Bryson, who is a regular repeat guest and dear friend. What I just want to say is this is, as usual,

not new. Gentle parenting is not evidence-based.

It's just an Instagram thing.

But the idea behind it sometimes is great because it's sensitive caregiving.

But only if it's in the context of having limits and boundaries, which is when you combine

sensitive caregiving and clear limits and boundaries, which is when you combine sensitive caregiving and clear limits and

boundaries, you get what is called in the research, authoritative parenting.

And authoritative parenting has been around for decades. It's been considered gold standard.

It leads to the most positive outcomes, social, emotional, and cognitive outcomes.

So everything kind of that you would hope for.

But the gentle parenting, because there's really no research behind gentle parenting,

so people use it in different ways, A lot of gentle parenting is either understood

because that's how one person's talking about it or misunderstood as being particularly

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