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Polly Pagenhart
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she will not be able to get a popsicle today, for several perfectly sensible reasons, a sucrose overdose at her cousin's birthday...
I quietly re-assert What's Going To Happen again, and note the added detail that we really do have to get home very soon; that Mama is waiting for us; that I'll have to pick her up and carry her out of the store soon if she doesn't decide to do so herself, simply as a practical solution to an obvious problem.
This would be an appropriate moment to note that I am severely loathe to use my superior size to force her body to do something I want it to do. I will take an extra ten, even (in dire circumstances) fifteen or twenty minutes of gentle persuasion, rather than resort to picking her up and moving her against her tiny will.
Alfie Kohn has written about this in both educational and parenting spheres, and has put words to extant beliefs of mine regarding teaching, and extended them for me into the world of parenthood. I have used parts of Punished By Rewards in a pedagogy class, and read patchwork chapters of Unconditional Parenting. The beloved has read Unconditional Parenting from cover to cover, and we are both rabid acolytes. Thus far, things have worked.
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