Is ‘Gentle Parenting’ Biblical?

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“If gentle parenting were just a mood board for solving parenting difficulties in nonconfrontational ways, I’d have nothing to say against it. But when you dig more deeply…you find at least two that stand opposed to the Bible’s teaching about parenting.” - TGC

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The Resurgence of the Two-Parent Family

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“The number of children under 18 living with two parents had fallen from 88% in 1960 to just over two-thirds in 2005…. then, contrary to expert prognostications, the proportion of children living with two parents gradually recovered, reaching 70% in 2020.” - IFS

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Parents, Discipline Your Little Children

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“Couple our cultural moment of permissiveness with the unpleasantness of administering discipline and we understand why parents err on the side of lenience. But lenience, like severity, is still an error.” - Ref21

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