A strong and loving relationship with your child is your most important parenting asset in the long run. Building that relationship inevitably includes problematic experiences where one or both of you get it wrong. If you can learn to welcome the failures and challenges as learning opportunities, you and your child will come through them together with deepened love and respect, ready to weather together the next storm that comes along. I’ll talk about research-validated tools that support you in doing that, including self-awareness, acceptance, gratitude, mindfulness, positivity, social support, respect for self and others, self-care, and creative self-expression.
