https://www.littleacornsnursery.school/tag/gentle-parenting/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:11:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.littleacornsnursery.school/whats-your-parenting-style-why-it-matters/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:45:47 +0000 https://www.littleacornsnursery.school/?p=7616 We each come to parenting from different circumstances, with experiences, personalities, beliefs, and traits that are unique to us. It's no surprise, therefore, that the way we bring up our own children can be very different to those of other parents. Indeed, our own idiosyncratic upbringings may influence what we believe to be a good approach to parenting — or a bad one. Some parents, for example, may mimic how their own parents brought them up. Others may head in the opposite direction for one reason or another. Now they have become a parent too, should they be permissive, gentle, strict, or even authoritarian in their own parenting style? Is somewhere in the middle a good balance? What's best for children generally, and their child specifically? There are so many questions to ask oneself as a new parent — it's quite a minefield! With all that in mind, we explore some of the most important parenting styles today, and find out what the experts have to say about them.]]>