Chil­dren used to be seen and not heard, but now they are the cen­ter of their par­ents’ uni­verse. Par­ents today seem skit­tish about assert­ing their author­i­ty. They indulge in their chil­dren’s demands and tantrums and enter into end­less nego­ti­a­tions, all for fear of hurt­ing their chil­dren’s feel­ings. This indul­gence is cre­at­ing a gen­er­a­tion of psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly frag­ile indi­vid­u­als, under­min­ing the very self-esteem it seeks to build. In between these par­ent­ing extremes exists a bet­ter way to raise thriv­ing, well-adjust­ed chil­dren. Per­mis­sion to Par­ent draws from the author’s Jew­ish val­ues to teach par­ents to be com­fort­able set­ting bound­aries while main­tain­ing a lov­ing con­nec­tion with their chil­dren, fos­ter­ing self-esteem, respect, and emo­tion­al matu­ri­ty. Chil­dren need lim­its more than they need indul­gence, time more than sched­ules, and love more than stuff. Robin Berman, M.D. pro­vides the tools for great par­ent­ing by draw­ing from her exten­sive clin­i­cal expe­ri­ence and wis­dom col­lect­ed from sea­soned ther­a­pists, revered teach­ers, and spir­i­tu­al lead­ers’ includ­ing sev­er­al pre­em­i­nent Rabbis.