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• Avoid being more invested in an outcome than your child is.

• Encourage free play. It fosters great cognitive skills.

• Be reasonable about what is dangerous and what is not.

• Pick your battles. Avoid strong reactions to fashion/friend choices your child may have.
• Allow your child to feel the feelings that come with disappointment.

• Don’t be quick to slap a label on your child at the first sign of a problem. See if you can
help your child figure out a solution.

• TV and other kids are not the keepers of your children. Kids need time with adults to
know how to act like an adult.

• Modify your parenting to fit your child’s temperament.

• Teach your child breathing skills: deep breathing through the nostrils, exhaling through
the mouth.

• Remember there are many roads to Mecca. Be open to alternative solutions.

• Avoid manipulating the academic system on behalf of your child. It may make the child
doubt their own abilities or gain a sense of entitlement.

• Remember, your job is to help raise a child that can function on his or her own,
emotionally and financially (you need to teach them how to handle money.)

• Encourage your child to think for themselves.

• Give them tools for intimacy in relationships by modeling that it's OK to disagree with
respect.