Teacher reveals the one thing she wishes all parents taught their kids before kindergarten: Its really hard to help them learn

Now, here’s a parenting tip moms and dads oughta “No!.”Emily Perkins, 28, a kindergarten teacher from Kentucky, is schooling parents on the art of saying “uh-uh” before their little rascal’s first day of school. “Tell your child ‘No,’” said the kiddo pro in a buzzy bulletin with over 326,000 TikTok views. “Tell them ‘No’ as a complete sentence,” she urged, insisting that a homespun lesson in denial is the best way to prepare a tot for the classroom.“Do not teach them that telling them ‘No’ invites them to argue with you.”Perkins assures that issuing a veto isn’t about being repressive.

Instead, it’s about teaching tikes respect. “If I can’t tell your child ‘No’ as an adult, and they don’t respect the ‘No,’” she said, “they’re basically unteachable.”It’s a piercing word-to-the-wise aimed directly at mothers and fathers of the “gentle parenting” persuasion.The folks who’d rather let their kids run amok than reprimand them with tough love. Gentle parenting is bringing-up-baby style that prioritizes empathy, understanding, independence and boundaries. It’s an ultramodern form of child-rearing that comes in stark contrast to the more traditional punishment-and-reward, “spare the rod, spoil the child” ideologies of yore.The little hellions of gentle parents are often permitted to do as they please — scream, holler, hit, terrorize and vandalize — sans repercussion.  Kelly Medina Enos, 34, doesn’t even instruct her five-year-old son, George, to say “sorry,” when he misbehaves.

To the millennial mom of two, from the UK, making him apologize — even after he “smacks” her —  is “disingenuous.”To Perkins, the gentle parenting trend is nothing but a nightmare. “Congratulations, you’re a pushover,” the teacher and mother of two scoffed in her viral rebuke.“You can validate your child’s feelings without being a pushover.”“I had a parent tell me that they don...