Tanya Sweeney: A flight was cancelled because a child wouldn’t put on a seatbelt – when ‘gentle’ parenting veers into outright permissiveness

Tanya Sweeney: A flight was cancelled because a child wouldn’t put on a seatbelt – when ‘gentle’ parenting veers into outright permissiveness

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The cancellation of a flight in Canada after a child refused to sit in their seat has sparked another debate about parenting and how to manage young kids in tricky situations