Do you want to raise a responsible child and a healthy family while avoiding some of the common pitfalls in the process? Do you over-praise? Do you appropriately manage your child’s self-esteem? Do you encourage risk-taking balanced with developmental readiness? Whatever your answers might be, what is required to arrive at the desired endpoint by parents and children alike is Emotional Restraint.

Barbara Strom Thompson is a Child Development Specialist with over three decades of experience in the fields of child advocacy and family life, and she will be my guest on this show. We will discuss these issues and provide the listeners with a Road Map to Self Control for themselves and their children.