To get the results they want, parents may engage in control strategies with rules and threats, yelling, punishments, and rejecting—all of which can lead to emotional mistreatment. These methods are designed to help parents feel powerful, with enough control to teach children to behave, think, speak, and feel as parents believe they should. If these methods work, they are only temporary and lock kids and parents into power struggles. Learn about the real power of parenthood and how to use it selectively.

Parenting is more than just discipline. Dr. Scoresby will explain several forms of parenting that will make parenting better, meaning more interesting and enjoyable to parents and more likely to produce the results parents hope to see in their children. Learn how to organize your family so you enjoy the process of starting a family, rearing children, and launching them into the world.

In this episode, Dr. Scoresby introduces the central theme of Do What Matters Most. He shares how his focus will be on what it takes to ensure that love exists, what promotes happiness and well being, how some people find hope and survive challenges and difficulties, and what it takes for us to be successful with one another so that we might do better and find more satisfaction and fulfillment in our relationships. All these require that we search for and do what matters most.