Striking a Balance: Traditional vs Gentle Parenting

This session compares traditional and gentle styles, their core beliefs, common practices, and where each shines or struggles and then shows how to blend structure with sensitivity. You’ll learn to set clear limits without harshness and offer warmth without wobbling on rules. Through live scenarios, we’ll practise emotion coaching, consistent routines, and repair after conflict. You’ll finish with a simple family playbook and scripts you can try tonight.

• Understand traits, practices, and trade-offs of traditional vs gentle styles
• Use “firm & warm” boundaries: clear rules + calm follow-through
• Emotion coaching: name feelings, teach skills, model regulation
• Routines that reduce power struggles (transitions, bedtime, screens)
• Repair after rupture: reconnect, reflect, reset (parent & child)
• Take home a balanced-parenting plan, case examples, and scripts