When award-winning journalist and bestselling child development author Wendy Lyons Sunshine adopted a difficult puppy, she found that traditional training methods didn’t work on her dog. So she began applying the evidence-based parenting practices she wrote about and found this new approach was life-changing for both her and her dog. In her latest book, Tender Paws: How Science-Based Parenting Can Transform Our Relationship with Dogs, Wendy offers therapeutic concepts designed to meet each dogs’ needs, and in this episode, she tells us why this approach is so effective.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What attunement is and how it affects the dog/human relationship.
• How the essential HEARTS strategy works for both kids and dogs.
• Why adopting a parenting perspective with our pets can improve our relationship with them.