Building strong, healthy relationships is the core of parenting and sometimes, despite our best efforts, it seems as if we are failing at every turn. Raising children is simultaneously one of the most rewarding and challenging tasks many of us face in our lifetime. Although parenting is a quintessential role of adulthood, most of us are making it up as we go. Balancing our careers, relationships, and personal health while prioritizing the needs of our children and family members can feel like an ungraceful circus act. How do we raise independent successful children while avoiding overparenting? How can we maintain our own identity while tending to the needs of our children? These are questions that modern parents face. Even with countless professionals offering their wisdom, many of us wonder if we are doing it correctly, and how our mistakes might affect our children in the long run.

The one consistent fact about parenting is that there is no one correct way to raise a child. Every child is different, and nurturing depends on the needs of your offspring. However, if we are overwhelmed, stressed out, and unable to attend to and nurture ourselves, providing a safe and loving environment to nurture our children becomes next to impossible. Emerging research, as well as a growing body of parent experiential testimonials, are showing that Microdosing can help parents to become more engaged with themselves and their children so that they can create the mental and emotional space to be able to develop and practice positive parenting techniques, learn age-appropriate child development skills and milestones, and promote positive play and interactions with their children.

With the right plan, Microdosing can help parents move from a place of anxiety to a normal state of confidence, not overconfidence. Parents have reported that, over time, the relationship they have with their children has become a lot more open and a lot warmer. These benefits have, in turn, carried over to spousal relationships and beyond those to other family and friends. Microdosing, combined with skills building, can help parents gain a wider-angle-lens perspective on their behavior and reactions to their children, access to greater self-compassion in their roles as parents, and expanded capacity to understand the dilemmas and vulnerabilities of their children with more empathy and patience; to become better parents – not perfect parents.