Does gentle parenting work?

Gentle parenting: a gag-worthy term right up there with ‘sustainable luxury’, and often ridiculed by those of our parents’ generation. And yet here I am. I have never once let my son, Jasper, now 20 m

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I’D just let Joey, my young Labrador, off the lead when I saw Spike for the first time. It was early; the grass was drenched in dew and there were few people about. He was a powerful-looking man stand

I’ll never forget the day my wife and I drove to pick up our miniature schnauzer puppy. She was just four weeks old and could sit in my palm. On the way home, I sat with her on the back seat as she co