For Parents:

• Maximize your positive influence on your children by understanding their minds and emotions at every age and stage of development.
   
• Enjoy the deepest pleasure possible in life, which is to experience close, loving relationships with your children.
   
• Raise children who have a stable inner happiness and well-being.
   
• Use a new approach to managing your children's difficult behaviors that does not rely upon negative measures such as timeouts, withdrawing privileges, yelling or threats.
   
• Feel more confident in your parenting.
   

A parenting book based on intrapsychic humanism, Smart Love: The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline That Will Make You a Better Parent and Your Child a Better Person, will take you on a developmental journey from infancy to teenhood, and provide you with specific guidelines for achieving your parenting goals. See also, www.smartloveparent.org.