Parent Smarter, Not Harder

Parent Smarter, Not Harder

Gentle Parenting: Proceed with Caution

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Emily Edlynn
Mar 14, 2025
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Originally published over a year ago, this post is a natural extension of my last post, Raising ADHD: Why Common Parenting Strategies Don’t Work and What to Do Instead.1 Gentle parenting has been a primary culprit in parents of ADHDers feeling like “this just doesn’t work.” But I have found this experience with gentle parenting to be true across parents …

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