Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease, and recurrent asthma attacks and related signs and symptoms have been reported to affect the psychosocial development of children. Consequently, the parents of the affected children become extremely worried and overprotective; moreover, chronic asthma influences the relationship between parents and children, and family life. Therefore, we designed a developmental care program for children with asthma based on empowerment theory for encouraging parents and children to establish partnerships and gradually enabling children with asthma to self-manage their condition. Thought-provoking critical questions were suggested for pediatric nurses on the basis of the four steps of empowerment theory, namely listening, dialog, reflection, and action, to assist the parent- child change care mode and to facilitate the successful transition of school-aged children to the succeeding stage of self-managing asthma.