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But good parenting is not black and white. Do you shout at your toddler when it does crazy stupid & dangerous things, or do you just let them suffer the conseq

• blowski 4y ago
  Exactly. Parenting is a challenging mix of turning kids into functioning adults, letting them have fun, teaching them life skills, making them feel safe, and preventing them from accidentally causing serious injury. Often these goals require conflicting choices. The solution, so far as there is one, is to do everything with love and humility. Then, even my mistakes are learning and bonding opportunities.
• watwut 4y ago
  Shouting something like "stop" or "enough" or "go" at toddler wont cause him trauma. What will cause trauma to your kid is yelling at him something like "you stupid f**, good for nothing looser, I hate you ..." There is literally zero dichotomy between preventing toddlers doing crazy stupid & dangerous things vs causing them trauma via words. Toddlers can be annoying and don't respect you are tired mentally or emotionally. People loose their emotional control, it happens, especially when there are other stresses. But, saying that it is about safety is simply not true.
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