How To Change Your Parenting Style As Your Child Matures

Should my parenting style change as my child matures?

There are very distinct developmental milestones that children go through, but there is also a philosophy, there is also, regardless of the age. I have in my classes parents who are pregnant or with newborns in the class with people with teenagers. I don't specialize particularly in all those developmental styles and techniques and knowledge because so much of it is available, there's so many books written on it and so on. What I offer parents, regardless of the age of their child, is a whole philosophy on how to look at that child. So if you have an infant newborn child, this child is behaving in certain ways, it has needs, it is thinking and feeling, and you have to listen. So what do you do if it's a baby and the baby can't talk? The baby is talking all the time. The baby is constantly talking. It isn't about words. So that's what parents need to learn. They need to learn effective listening skills. Regardless of the age of the child. If you have a teenager who's sullen and withdrawn and depressed and won't go to school, and so on and so forth, what's different? You have to learn to listen.