Gentle parenting is why your special ed classroom is a war zone. And yes; research is proving it. Classrooms confirm it. Gentle parenting and permissive parenting function the exact same way in real life: no boundaries, no consequences, and kids who think every “no” is a negotiation. Kids should not be helping decide their consequences. That’s how you train aggressive and neurodivergent kids to believe their feelings run the world…and that’s exactly why special ed classrooms and even general ed