Re:6-year-old made $11M in one year reviewing toys on YouTube
by dragonwriter on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:03AM
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> If I cried over something dumb like this, I'd absolutely be having a painfully intimate moment with a ruler, belt or hand
Children, especially very young children, cry over dumb things; it's normal and expected and beating them for it is both cruel and (as mountains of evidence have shown) counterproductive developmentally.
That's not to say parents should give in to tantrums, they should not. But there is a vast space between giving in to tantrums and beating children for them, and it's somewhere in that space that good parenting lies.
Children, especially very young children, cry over dumb things; it's normal and expected and beating them for it is both cruel and (as mountains of evidence have shown) counterproductive developmentally.
That's not to say parents should give in to tantrums, they should not. But there is a vast space between giving in to tantrums and beating children for them, and it's somewhere in that space that good parenting lies.