The 5 Principles of Parenting
Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Let go of perfect and become a transformative, positive influence in a child’s life while creating your own definition of success from developmental psychologist and podcaster Dr. Aliza Pressman.
“My go-to for how we all raise good humans, including ourselves!” —Drew Barrymore
In the age of high-pressure parenting, when so many of us feel like we’ve got to get everything exactly right the first time, Dr. Aliza Pressman is the compassionate, reassuring expert we all need—and 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 5 Principles of Parenting doesn’t presume to tell you how to parent with “my way is right” advice because the science is clear: There’s no one “right” way to raise good humans. No matter how you were raised, how your coparent behaves, or how your kids have been parented up until now, you can start using The 5 Principles of Parenting to chart a manageable course for raising good humans that’s aligned with your own values and with your children’s unique temperaments. Whether you're in the trenches with a toddler or a tween (because spoiler alert: the tantrums of childhood mirror the tantrums of adolescence), it’s never too late to learn to use these 5 principles to reparent yourself and help your kids build the resilience they need to thrive. Through practice and normalizing imperfection, along the way you’ll discover the person you’re ultimately raising is yourself. By becoming more intentional people, we become better parents. By becoming better parents, we become better people. Let’s get started.
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This discerning debut manual draws parenting lessons from psychological research. Outlining five practices for boosting children's resilience, developmental psychologist Pressman stresses that parents should serve as a stable source of support, take time to reflect on how to best meet their children's needs, regulate their own emotions, set limits on acceptable behavior, and go out of their way to remedy any rifts that arise between parent and child. She illustrates the importance of helping children develop a sense of autonomy by discussing a study that found children preferred to complete complex mazes over simpler ones because the greater number of choices was "inherently rewarding." This doesn't mean parents should give kids free rein, she contends, but caregivers instead might offer children a "choice about whether to brush their teeth or take a bath first" before bed. Elsewhere, Pressman weighs in on resolving sibling conflicts, regulating screen time, and helping children develop a healthy relationship with food. Her science-based suggestions are detailed and persuasive, and her tone is empathetic: "Doing the best we can more often than not" is "good enough." Overextended parents will appreciate the astute guidance.
