Mental Health in Kids

A Wildflower Expressions Blog 🌼 Gentle Parenting vs. Permissive Parenting: Why They’re Not the Same (And Why I Chose Gentle) There’s this running joke online that “gentle parenting is just letting kids run wild with fairy dust and zero consequences.” Except—no. Absolutely not. Gentle parenting is not permissive parenting. One is wildflower wild—soft, rooted, resilient. The other is more like… dandelion fluff in the wind—floating wherever the breeze takes it. And that differe