Natural consequences aren’t.
Is there really no decision-making on the part of the parent using ‘natural consequences’?
Is there really no decision-making on the part of the parent using ‘natural consequences’?
Unfortunately it is not true that children taken seriously are good at identifying coercion (except perhaps overt coercion).
It is easier to identify coercion that is riding roughshod over a child, than the covert satin-slipper-shod kind.