Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

How we feel about our kids isn’t as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

“the more conditional the support [one receives], the lower one’s perceptions of overall worth as a person.”

The dominant problem with parenting in our society isn’t permissiveness, but the fear of permissiveness. We’re so worried about spoiling kids that we often end up overcontrolling them.