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.

Misusing terminology is not simply a matter of semantics. A person who confuses the meaning of words is likely to behave accordingly.聽That occurred to me during a conversation with a parent who was using the word discipline as if it was a synonym for punishment.聽