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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Lisa Salmon

What is gentle parenting and how can you raise your kids this way?

If being smacked and shouted at was how you were raised, you may feel there must be a better way to bring up your own children.

But if the other extreme – ‘permissive parenting’, where there’s very few boundaries and little or no discipline – is a step too far, could ‘gentle parenting’ be a good middle-ground?

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