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Marnina Kammersell's avatar

Such good work Fran.

I highlighted this:

“Consent-based parenting or peaceful parenting, which is characterized by reciprocity and collaboration.”

Because I wanted to ask - what about when a parent is doing their best to bring reciprocity and collaboration, and for whatever reason, a child cannot often engage in that way? When they are developmentally mostly existing in a unilateral phase, of this is the way things have to be?

We’ve talked about it a bit and I imagine you’ll say it’s an ongoing and unfolding process. Ross Greene’s Plan C is helpful for thinking about these kids.

And you do allude to the messiness and often not-peaceful feeling nature of collaborative parenting! Low demand can be high demand for us as parents.

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Lanny Anderson's avatar

Not okay to pay kids to read. Yes, okay to ban kids’s phones bell to bell, if they are in school, that is

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