If you are a parent, you are sitting thinking, “When does it become easier?” – You hate to break it, but the easy part has gone long. Remember those well -meaning elders who asked you to enjoy your pregnancy before the real roller coaster started? And how you rolled your eyes, thinking, “How difficult it can be really?”

Well, now you know, this knowledge was speaking. Early days feeding programs, first words and milestones may have a spot of stone function. But as your child grows, challenges develop: what kind of parents do you want to become? How is it included? How much freedom is the right zodiac?

And when you felt that you have come to know about parenting, there is a new trend about talking to everyone: Fafo parenting, which is around F ** and detects.

What is this?

Dr. Deepak Gupta, child and teenage psychiatrists, senior advisors, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, explains that FAFO parenting is a firm, result-based approach where children learn through real-world results rather than repeated warnings.

“This approach believes that natural results support the development of important thinking skills by allowing children to feel strong in making their decisions, but only to follow the instructions from the authority’s data,” they say Today India,

For this, a Mumbai-based couple and family counselor, psychiatrist and psychologist, Priyanka Kapoor, says that this upbringing style allows the child to learn in a difficult way. “People are tired of explaining and being kind to children. Children are taking advantage of politics and patience, and parents are losing patience,” she says.

She further shares that the ideology behind the FAFO parenting is for the child to learn through experiences. Experiences often teach good lessons in life. Such perspectives increase flexibility, high self-esteem, limitations and self-sanctions.

Goodbye

Many parents have started feeling like soft parenting, while great in theory, sometimes can swing far away. Certainly, it is all about sympathy and understanding, which seems amazing, but when every tantrum meets with endless conversation, some mummy and dads blur. Where are boundaries? Who is really here?

This is the place where anxiety comes: If children never listen to ‘no’ or face real results, to think that the world will always bow to them? Some parents believe that it does, and it can create a sense of entitled without meaning.

Dr. According to Gupta, there is a noticeable change. Parents are a bit strong, looking for a style that still cares but does not compromise on structure and accountability.

Kapoor agrees, “Getting a hard time to the soft parenting parents, where children are becoming more rebel and derogatory. Children always think in black and white ways. Their brain is not equipped to understand the colors of gray. Therefore, they can have children to take advantage of the absence of rules, restrictions and strictness.”

Meanwhile, according to Nishita Srivastava, clinical psychological, Lisun (a mental health startup), parents are now moving away from gentle parenting as it may feel tired. Being a constant guide, always calm, always explaining, it is a lot. And after that effort, many still feel.

Parents echo with Fafo

Mumbai-based child psychologist and parenting counselor, Ridei Doshi Patel, says PaFo parenting resonates with parents for two reasons: it promotes freedom and responsibility in children, and it helps parents to reconstruct the right that they felt that they are losing with gentle upbringing.

“With soft parenting, support is required to be 100 percent. Even if you wanted to discipline a child, you will indicate it gently or avoid discipline completely. Over time, the children started taking their parents. Parents were insisted, especially during the epidemic and later, when the behavior changes were not visible desperates.”

Fafo feels different as it brings the boundaries back into the equation. “The idea is simple: you explain, you warns, and if the child still does, the responsibility is their,” Patel says, “parents say this way, because they grew up with very official parents and wanted to go away from it.

However, the problem is that, parents take a style and move it to the peak. You need to merge and balance the styles.

As Priyanka Kapoor, Fafo parenting makes children emotionally and physically independent. They are solving their problems themselves. They are capable of handling hard emotions and situations.

What does it mean for children

Nishita Srivastava tells us that this style of parenting gives children a strong sense of autonomy from an early age. They rely to make their choice within safe boundaries, and this freedom comes with an important lesson: every action results.

Whether it is positive or negative, they begin to understand the cause and impact in real life. Over time, it helps them develop accountability, decision -making skills and flexibility as they learn the results of their choice instead of trusting someone else.

She further states that FAFO parenting can affect children both short and long -term. First, children can struggle to see their parents as affectionate rather than cold, but over time, it promotes autonomy and confidence. These children often develop first decision making skills and feel more confident in their choice.

However, Kapoor feels that the Parenting Fafo style can sometimes mean a child ignorance or neglect. It also depends on the age and personality of the child.

“When the child is young, by the age of eight, they also require guidance, heat and affection. For some children, especially those who are rebellious, this is honor, place and freedom. But children who are sensitive and emotional, they cannot handle everything emotionally, physically or in relationships alone. Therefore, each, each,”.

While this parenting style can help children become flexible and emotionally strong, it is not without risk. If taken to the peak, children may feel differently, alone, or emotionally neglected. Lack of warmth and affection can cause a sense of emptiness, which can build anger and resentment over time.

Riddhi Doshi Patel also shares that for children, Fafo can sometimes feel rigid. The tone of ‘I have warned you, now can be dealt with it’, feeling emotionally insecure or inability to children. Some people may be afraid to make mistakes, worry about who will help them, or even shared things with their parents.

If excessively used, this approach can damage confidence, cause anxiety, or talk of lying and internal shame.

What Fafo is the right approach?

Experts believe that the FAFO parenting style may be effective, but only when thought is used. Like something else, this is not very good. The ideal approach is a balanced: Authority, a mixture of warmth, affection and freedom. Without guidance, children can take wrong decisions that can lead to serious consequences.

Fafo works best when the faired with sympathy. If it becomes punitive, the parents need to be assured and brought to the connection-based discipline, like a light column, offering safety, support and clear boundaries, while still giving children space to find, mistake and grow.

No parenting style works for everyone. What matters is getting the right balance for your child. Extreme approaches rarely work; What children need is combined with firmness.