It’s very difficult for people to visualize parenting that isn’t aggressive or haphazard because they don’t have experience with it. That’s why it’s so incredibly important to keep talking/showing what conscious/gentle/positive parenting looks/sounds/feels like.

Right now, people think the responses to a different kind of parenting represents perfect parenting, and it doesn’t. Folks just do not have the schema for parenting that isn’t “in-your-face” or passive aggressive. That’s the sad part.

Some people don’t trust their ability to do it successfully. Others don’t trust that it can teach children better than violence or forcefulness. Some simply can’t picture it at all. These are all products of personal backgrounds.

People feel judged when they read tweets from parents who practice conscious/gentle/positive parenting. Even in the way we respond to tweets about our responses to children, others *feel* judged bc they see the differences in how they parent. You have to get past that.