What is 'Parenting Wrong' About?

Parenting Wrong helps you understand how your upbringing influences your parenting. It explores how your own childhood issues and generational traumas can become opportunities for family growth. This audiobook is meant for anyone involved with a child’s emotional development—parents who are single or co-parenting, caregivers, teachers, grandparents, aunts, and uncles.

It's a story-driven audiobook with 36 short chapters for parents and caregivers of young children, from birth through elementary school. addressing common daily challenges—such as excessive screen time, picky eating, cleanup problems, defiance, and aggressive behavior—while exploring deeper emotional topics, such as healing generational trauma.

It's organized into four themes: early childhood challenges, communication and connection, behavior and boundaries, and repair and growth. It offers practical “Emotional Power Tools” and 10 “Parenting Hacks” with step-by-step guidance for real-life situations. Parents are encouraged to see mistakes as learning opportunities and then use quick connection rituals like “Five Magic Minutes” and practice repair when issues arise.

Instead of an academic audiobook filled with research, it draws from the author’s experience as a parent and tutor to elementary school children and his many lifelong friendships with children. Parenting Wrong presents attachment-based and emotional coaching ideas in clear, accessible language. The core message is that parenting challenges are not failures but signals that help parents heal their childhood wounds, break generational patterns, and respond to their children with love, thoughtfulness, self-awareness, and kindness.