The 5 Principles of ParentingThe 5 Principles of Parenting

Let go of perfect and become a transformative, positive influence in a childs life while creating your own definition of success from development psychologist and podcaster Dr. Aliza Pressman.In the age of high-pressure parenting, when so many of us we feel like weve got to get everything exactly right the first time, Dr. Aliza Pressman is the compassion, reassuring expert we all needand the one whose advice we can all use. Already beloved by listeners of hit podcast, Raising Good Humans, Dr. Pressman distills it all with a handful of strategies every parent can use to get things right often enough: Relationship, Reflection, Regulation, Rules, and Repair. The Five Principles of Parenting doesnt presume to tell you how to parent with my way is right advice because the science is clear: Theres no one right way to raise good humans. No matter how you were raised, how your co-parent behaves, or how your kids have been parented up until now, you can start using The Five Principles of Parenting to chart a manageable course for raising good humans thats aligned with your own values and with your childrens unique temperaments. Whether you're in the trenches with a toddler or a tween (because spoiler alert: the tantrums of childhood mirror of the tantrums of adolescence), its never too late to learn to use these five principles to reparent yourself and help your kids build the resilience they need to thrive. Through practice and normalizing imperfection, along the way youll discover the person youre ultimately raising is yourself. By becoming more intentional people, we become better parents. By becoming better parents, we become better people. Lets get started.