Ask Me Anything - Gentle Parenting, Attachment Theory, Strong-Willed Kids, and Why Attuned Parenting Beats All of It (Part 2)

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[guitar music playing] I'm back with another solo episode today, and it's gonna be a follow-up to last week's episode, which was an ask me anything.

You guys submitted questions.

I couldn't get to all of them in that episode, so I broke it up into two, and I kind of categorized them.

So last week's was more about, um, reactivity, h- being able to pause in the moment, tactical or, like, tangible tools that you can use in the moment to do that.

There was questions around reactivity, not reacting, being able to stay calm, what we need to stay calm.

Calm is not a passive state.

It's really active and hard.

It doesn't mean that you're being permissive and avoidant.

So check that one out if that feels like it might be helpful to you.

And today, this is an interesting one.

I'm always reluctant to answer these types of questions, but I'm gonna do it today because I figured, um, the questions, I should just at least say it this way, the questions that you guys asked all sort of center around my opinion on different parenting styles, different approaches, different people in the field, um, phrases, trends, things like that.