Posts tagged “The Parenting Map”

A woman with curly hair wearing a green sweater sits on a teal couch, listening attentively and gesturing with her hands while a young boy in a striped shirt reads to her from a white book. The background features a bookshelf and framed botanical art.
Shefali Tsabary research

To Bond With Your Kid, Tsabary Says to Stop Trying to Control Them

"It's only 10 percent what the child is doing and 90 percent what the parent is doing."

An illustrated interior scene of a cozy living room in a warm, muted color palette. A father with curly dark hair and a beard sits cross-legged on a patterned rug, looking lovingly and smiling at his young son. The son is sitting nearby on the floor, holding and putting on his shoes, looking up at his father with a happy expression. The background features a sofa table with a framed family photo, a potted plant, a bookshelf filled with books, and a window letting in soft light. The style is a flat vector illustration
Shefali Tsabary research

The Power Struggle Was Never Really About the Shoes

"It's only 10 percent what the child is doing and 90 percent what the parent is doing."

An illustrated interior scene of a cozy living room. A woman with brown hair in a patterned cardigan stands in the foreground, looking thoughtfully into a mirror on the wall. Her reflection shows her looking sad, and a thought bubble above her reflection contains an image of a crying child with pigtails. In the background, a young girl with pigtails plays happily with building blocks on a patterned rug near a sofa. An open book and a family photo are on a console table next to the mirror. The style is a flat vector illustration with a warm, muted color palette.
Shefali Tsabary research

"Parenting Isn't About Your Child." What Tsabary Actually Means by That

The wrong problem, according to Tsabary, is almost always the one parents start with.

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