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Being a “Good Enough” Parent Objective To help parents see that it is unrealistic and even unhelpful to try being a perfect parent. Rather, parents can strive to be “good enough,” while teaching their children important resiliency skills so that they learn to handle life’s inevitable problems on their own. You Should Know
Dec 22, 2015 · Good enough parents know that they must go more than halfway to make the parent-child relationship work. It is the parent’s job to understand the child; it is not necessarily the child’s job ...
Mar 4, 2020 · The world had changed since Winnicott coined that phrase, and over time, good enough took on new meaning. During, and following, the years that I raised my now 26-year-old son, I began to realize ...
May 3, 2016 · So being a "good enough mother" is fairly complex. It involves a balancing act between two equally important processes for a child's healthy cognitive development and even his future happiness: 1 ...
Sep 22, 2020 · Parenting is challenging and exhausting. As parents, we place a high level of pressure on ourselves to be present, to be aware of every detail of our children’s lives and to ensure our children ...
A key function of good enough parenting is to provide the essential background to allow for the growing child's disillusionment with the parents and the world, without destroying their appetite for life and ability to accept (external and internal) reality. [5] By surviving the child's anger and frustration with the necessary disillusionments ...
Mar 15, 2023 · Focusing on good enough parenting can relieve the pressure and improve the parent-child relationship. While pregnant with my first child, I was flooded with mommy blogs, prenatal websites, and ...
