How to Stop Arguing and Negotiating With Children and Become a Calmer Parent
Share Photo: (Photo : Priscilla Du Preez / Unsplash ) One would have to question if yelling, negotiating, and arguing with a child is the norm worldwide. If not, how do other parents manage to be calmer parents sans the tension and power struggles? Some families from hunting-gathering villages are highlighted as an example of calmer parenting. Calmer Parents Rarely Need to Tell Their Kids What to Do Anthropologist Sheina Lew-Levy conducted a study with BaYaka hunter-gatherers in Central Africa. She observed adults rarely needed to tell their children what to do, which is only about three ...