Validation

There has been quite the dust up in the Gentle Parenting community over the last week, which triggered Leah enough that she needed to talk about it!There seems to be a real misunderstanding of the meaning of the phrase "validating emotions." To validate simply means to ACCEPT. It doesn't mean all emotions are right, positive, feel good, etc. At the same time, emotions are different than thoughts. While we always want to validate the emotion (I'm sad), we don't necessarily have to validate tho...