Cleveland Clinic<\/a>, “The goal of gentle parenting is to raise confident, independent and happy children through empathy, respect and understanding, and setting healthy boundaries. This parenting style focuses largely on age-appropriate development.”<\/p>\nHowever, the parenting technique has faced criticism from some parents, as some say that social media depicts gentle parenting in a way that can shame parents and cause stress.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut\u2026I’m really curious,\u201d she continued. \u201cCome back to me in 20 years and tell me how that kid turns out. I’m- I’m really worried for you.\u201d Miller laughed in her seat at Lara\u2019s thoughts on the parenting style.<\/p>\n
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Lara Trump said, \u201cI hate gentle parenting. I am not a gentle parent at all”(Image: Katie Miller Pod\/YouTube)<\/p>\n
\u201cLike, my son the other night was desperate to leave the lights in the hallway on and was like hysterical about turning the lights off,\u201d Lara said. \u201cAnd Eric and I were like, \u2018We\u2019re turning the lights off.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Continuing, she said, \u201cAnd he kind of whined about it for a while thinking someone would feel sorry for him. No one felt sorry for him, and guess what? The past two weeks since we\u2019ve established this rule that we\u2019re turning off the lights in the hall, he hasn\u2019t even said anything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCause you know why? We\u2019re in charge, and we made that decision, and we followed through on it,\u201d she concluded. \u201cThat\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lara and Eric share two children: a son, Eric Luke Trump, born in September 2017, and a daughter, Carolina Dorothy Trump, born in August 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you can\u2019t put empty threats out there for kids who hate it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t work.\u201d Miller chimed in, saying, \u201cThey need firm boundaries,\u201d and Lara agreed, \u201c1,000%.\u201d<\/p>\n
Social media users criticized Lara Trump\u2019s stance on gentle parenting<\/p>\n
Viewers of the podcast shared their reactions to Lara’s stance on gentle parenting on X, with one critic writing, \u201cThe poor kid was probably scared of the dark. Instead of comforting him, like a normal nurturing mother, Lara said F— \u2018em! I need my alone time to drink my wine. 20 years from now those kids are going to be the ones who hate their parents.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another user wrote, “I feel sorry for both y’all children.” One user commented, “You can do gentle parenting while also having firm boundaries.”<\/p>\n
However, others agreed with Lara’s stance, with one user writing, “This is right on point….kids need guidance and high expectations to thrive.” Another commented, “Firm parenting isn’t cruelty, it’s preparation for the real world.Well said.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, shared her controversial opinion on gentle parenting on The Katie Miller…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,81,7550,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-40290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eric-trump","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eric-trump","10":"tag-parenting","11":"tag-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116456046150622858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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