It’s called “Fafo” parenting – the letters standing for “f**k about and find out”. Fafo parenting is basically the childrearing version of the popular self-help book, Let Them. Fafo parenting is apparently set to replace the much maligned and yet extremely popular gentle parenting ethos. At its core, gentle parenting is a reactionary move away from previous generations who used methods like smacking and shouting, which are unquestionably worse. The real issue with gentle parenting is that (as well as being extremely annoying) it’s cumbersome.