Becky Kennedy

Can you be grateful for one thing in your life?

And things get worse from there.

He screams, I hate you, he runs out of the room and he slams his bedroom door, and now my self-loathing session begins as I say to myself, what is wrong with me?

I've messed up my kid forever.

Well, if you're a parent, you've probably felt that pain.

For me, it comes with an extra layer of shame.

I mean, I'm a clinical psychologist, and my specialty is helping people become better parents.

And yet, this is true as well.

There is no such thing as a perfect parent.

Mistakes and struggles, they come with the job, but no one tells us what to do next.

Do we just move on?

Kind of just pretend the whole thing never happened?

Or if I say something, what are the words?

Well, for years, as a clinical psychologist in private practice, I saw client after client struggle with this question.

And now, as the creator of the parenting content and community platform Good Inside, I see millions of parents around the globe struggle with this issue.

All parents yell, no one knows what to do next.

Well, I'm determined to fill this gap.

After all, there's almost nothing within our interpersonal relationships that can have as much impact as repair.

Whenever a parent asks me what one parenting strategy should I focus on, I always say the same thing.

Get good at repair.