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How about TELLING a child what to do instead of asking? My gentle parenting daughter always asks her 26 month old child what he wants for breakfast. Please. He doesn’t know what’s healthy. Don’t ask or give if you must ask, two healthy choices. Sorry, not a fan of gentle parenting. Now that the child can talk his parents are his literal slaves.

Just as there is cause and effect in everyday decisions, life is full of natural consequences. Demonstrating and modelling this is far more important (and easier for children to understand) than imposing "punishment". Is getting a ticket for speeding punishment? Yes. So what? Teaching them to have the ability to foresee that the consequences of speeding may be a freeway mass casualty event -is a far more potent tool. Punishment is far too subjective, fear based, shame-based, counterproductive and more frequently DESTRUCTIVE. We're not course-correcting violent felons here. In general, child punishment SHOULD be an oxymoron..like "underage prostitute".

Alfie Kohn is a pompous cretin

This feels like gaslighting

IDK, given the number of people who've harmed themselves or others as a result of psych meds, it seems like any substance one takes to handle anxiety is going to have some level of risk. The question always should be "do the benefits outweigh the risks", and obviously the answer is going to be different for everyone.

Thank you for talking about this! There’s not nearly enough awareness

How quickly does the risk diminish with age? Obviously it’s probably relatively high for <18 year olds (and probably even <21 year olds), but does it become less of a concern around 25? 30? 35?

I can confirm. I'm a 37 year old guy with anxiety and self-diagnosed autism. I just wanted to take cannabis to relax and sink into the couch for a bit like how it works for most people. But for me, what happens is I go cross-eyed and my hearing gets echoey, visuals get distorted like the sink or toilet seems twice as far away as usual, at points I felt like I could hop back and forth a split second into the future and things seemed sort of holographic. Walking down my hallway between bedrooms felt like a walk around the block. My dog happened to throw up and I had to keep asking my partner over and over if that really happened or if I imagined it, because I couldn't decide. Ended up in the bedroom going through waves of feeling terrible for about 6 hours, trying to listen to music I like just to hold on to reality. At one point my pug came and sat on the bed with me and it felt like he was my spirit guide trying to calm me down. All of this from taking a very small dose of THC oil, and a second even worse time from taking 1 inhale from a vape. I've never tried actual cannabis flower before, maybe in very small amounts that would work for me, but at this point I'm afraid to try it. I can only describe what I experience on cannabis products as psychosis or derealization/depersonalization. Alcohol also doesn't agree with me, and I've tried multiple anti-anxiety meds that only give me worse panic attacks, so I was really hopeful that weed would be my one way to relax for a bit, but unfortunately not.

Nobody talks about this. My brother was at university when he smoked cannabis (most likely mixed with skunk but still), overdid it, and developed psychosis. Had to come home, was then sectioned. Got treatment through the NHS, and was fine soon after. We have a very small family and as a far as I know no history of this or mental illness in our family. It happened nearly 15 years ago and he is fine now - has a girlfriend, house and child with a good job but I feel like no one ever talks about the risks associated with cannabis. Psychosis came out of nowhere for my brother

Is scary a normal developmental stage or is it always anxiety? My 3 year old tells me all the time that things are scary. Is this the start of anxiety or do toddlers learn that things can hurt/scare them?

Would love to hear more about how a child’s anxiety can perpetuate anxiety in a parent. I feel like I do a really good job at co-regulation when my child is in an anxious state. They are able to get to a calm regulated state, but I feel like I’m left with the heaviness of their anxiety and I carry that with me. What are some coping skills that would help?

Very good talk for kids. And also I am first viewers.🙂

Good information about child.

Do you do phone consults?

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