My husband and I recently visited our son鈥檚 family. We were appalled to discover that they 鈥 practice 鈥済entle parenting,鈥 which seemed to explain our two grands鈥 generally disrespectful and disobedient behavior.

What is 鈥済entle parenting鈥? It did not take much investigation for me to conclude that it is merely a rebranding of the same old, same old parenting babble that America鈥檚 mental health establishment has been grinding out since the late 1960s.