"Gentle parenting"
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Mrs. Frazzled performs "gentle parenting" on the Signalgate group:
I'm old enough not to be familiar with the term "gentle parenting", though it's definitely Out There.
Mrs. Frazzle's enactment of "gentle parenting" seems to me more like a nursery-school teacher's monologue than a parent's, though neither my parents nor my teachers ever talked this way.
And this sketch suggests that in addition to the prosodic, gestural and postural features, there's some correlated vocabulary. Idioms that I learned from this sketch include:
| criss-cross applesauce | sitting with crossed legs, "tailor-fashion" | |
| spoons in bowls | hands in lap | |
| catch a bubble | keep your mouth shut |
The links for those phrases all agree with the pre-school context.