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Severe Gentle-Parenting Burnout

UNTREATABLE.COM Institute of Incurable Conditions
SEVERE
Diagnosis
Severe Gentle-Parenting Burnout
Parentus negotiatus infinitus
Clinical description

Patient has been reasoning with a three-year-old for 47 minutes. The three-year-old is winning. Patient has used the phrase 'big feelings' 14 times today.

Prognosis

Will escalate by preschool.

Recommended treatment

None. The book said no consequences.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Severe Gentle-Parenting Burnout typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Patients diagnosed with Severe Gentle-Parenting Burnout present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.

The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Parentus negotiatus infinitus, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.

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