"Though gentle parenting can teach kids emotional resilience, 'it doesn't necessarily teach them what to do with their feelings in the bigger part of the world,' Hartstein said. Plus, we often don't have the amount of time gentle parenting requires in order to be successful."
"FAFO parenting can teach kids 'resilience and grit and how to pick themselves up and how to kind of move forward in this world that can be very unforgiving,' Sóuter said. 'But there are parents who say it is too harsh, and a lot of parents ... don't want to see their kids fail.'"
"Calm authority parenting style includes both boundaries and warmth. 'It's not authoritarian and it's not permissive,' she added, but it does include consequences. Kids who are throwing a ball in the house might get a warning or two, and then parents should follow through with the consequence of taking the ball away."
Three parenting approaches dominate current discussions: gentle parenting emphasizes feelings but lacks discipline and requires significant time investment; FAFO parenting teaches resilience through natural consequences but may be too harsh for some parents; calm authority parenting emerges as a balanced middle ground. This approach combines emotional validation with clear boundaries and consistent consequences. Parents using calm authority provide warnings before enforcing consequences, such as removing a toy after repeated rule violations. The method validates children's feelings while teaching them to navigate real-world expectations and develop healthy boundaries. Experts suggest this balanced approach addresses limitations of both extreme parenting styles.
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