Intentional Ways to Grow a Healthy Parenting Relationship

As a parent, or those in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your child’s/teen’s success.  You are the most important influence in your child’s/teen’s life. Intentional parenting is an approach where you use strategies to build a healthy parent-child relationship. A healthy parent-child relationship provides opportunities for you and your child/teen to learn and practice social and emotional skills. Social and emotional skills are important because they are linked to significant positive outcomes throughout life, such as ●      academic achievement, ●      improved relationships, ●      higher pay at work, and ●      greater emotional wellbeing.Social and emotional skills also serve to protect against negative outcomes such as ●      conduct problems, and●      emotional distress.