Can I say the thing? I'm gonna say it.

Gentle Parenting is for the birds, and I honestly think trying it for so long has given me more to undo.

Look, I get that most of us are in the 'respect the feelings' generation after our parents just pretended they didn't matter. Still, there has to be a middle ground. Even if you are great about every detail of GP, and you have all the patience in the world, I honestly think a lot of us have inadvertently taught our kids to be more emotional. I'm not sure they're learning to process their emotions better, but rather that their emotions get attention. The whole idea is "once they process those emotions, they can move through them". My kid does not move through them after acknowledgement, and it isn't easier for him to process emotions when he experiences them next time.

Sometimes, you just have to get tf over things. Oh, the machine ate your money? In the grand scheme of things, that's a non-issue. Get over it.