Dr. Laura Markham: Peaceful Parenting [The Knowledge Project Ep. #52]
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Dr. Laura Markham: Peaceful Parenting [The Knowledge Project Ep. #52]
It was only when I realized many years later that I was in some ways a miserable failure as a parent that I began learning how to become a better one. I watched my wife Imaging. Her view of her two boys was different from my approach to child rearing. She saw her children as individuals who were fully entitled to her respect—even as infants. She li
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