My partner and I have been fighting about how to handle our three-year-old's meltdowns - I think we need to give him space to feel his feelings but my partner wants to use timeouts and consequences. We're undermining each other in front of him and I can feel the tension affecting our whole family dynamic.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who love the same child are working from fundamentally different beliefs about how children learn emotional regulation.
“Where Are You with Toddler development and discipline philosophy?”
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