What is the best way to parent a child?

What is the best way to parent a child?

Jayne Major, Ph.D. (Parenting Educator & Child Custody Consultant, Breakthrough Parenting Services, Inc. ) gives expert video advice on: How will giving my child everything he wants affect him in the future?; What is the best way to parent a child?; What is the key to successful parenting? and more...

Parents have to learn a whole new skill set in parenting a child. One of the skills that they have to learn, that they didn't ever really have to learn before, was how to listen. If any of us was raised with authority of our parents, listening was not their virtue. Now, to be a modern breakthrough parent, people have to listen to their children. Listen to the child's feelings and gauge the child. The power, then, through the breakthrough parenting, is not one over the other. There is a mutuality about it where we solve problems together. That is amazing shift. When parents learn how easy that is to do; to solve problems with children, instead of telling children how to think and act "because I said so", they are astonished. The satisfaction they get out of being a parent when their child is solving their sobbing problems with them, willingly and happily following through; the struggle disappears. They become so close with their children. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing that every parent wants.