“I don’t harangue or criticize or shame my 5-year-old son. (How could I? He’s so loveable and great!) It’s more that I nudge. And when nudging doesn’t work, because he no longer hears it — that’s the problem with nudges; you grow immune to them — I flip my lid and feel like a monster,” admits Katie Arnold-Ratliff today. So she did a little experiment: “I would shut up for a while and just let the kid be.” Obviously, you have to know how that turned out, right? Check it out.
Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor |
