Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
Coercive vs non-coercive communication
🧠 “How can I express approval when children do something good without manipulating them by implying that I would disapprove if they had made a different choice?”
♒️ The language of parental power plays
🧬 Coercion, manipulation, reason, persuasion
🔷 “What do you think?”
🥶 “Surely we should communicate our disapproval to our children?”
❇️ Expressing approval vs expressing appreciation
🤢 Common emotional blackmail
🤔 Question or command?
🚼 “How can we non-coercively communicate urgent information to pre-verbal toddlers?”
💔 Never make a child feel bad
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