Unconditional Parenting
Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
A challenge to the rewards and punishments at the heart of parenting advice: praise, stickers and time-outs teach children to chase approval.
Alfie Kohn challenges the reward-and-punishment approach at the heart of much parenting advice, arguing that praise, stickers, and time-outs teach children to chase approval rather than to become good people. He makes the case for love that isn’t contingent on behaviour, and for working with children rather than doing things to them. Provocative and research-based, it asks parents to reconsider what they really want for their kids.
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Ali Abdaal
Video · March 2022
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