<b>Parenting is <i>hard. </i>But when we replace conventional parent-child power dynamics with collaboration, family life gets easier today—and we create a better world for all of us in the future.</b><br><br>When we see our children stalling, resisting, having tantrums, using mean words, and hitting, we want to<i> just make it stop</i>. But conventional discipline methods like time-outs, countdowns, and “consequences” teach children that it’s OK for more powerful people to control others—a lesson they take out into the world. This is how <i>we</i> learned White supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism from our parents—and we will replicate this with our children unless we make a different choice.<br><br>Research-based parenting educator Jen Lumanlan offers a simple yet revolutionary framework for rethinking our relationships with children. This new approach helps us to look beneath challenging behaviors to find and meet children’s needs, and ours