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Parenthood: The Joys and the Challenges. Angela Evans
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ParenthoodThe Joys and the
ChallengesAngela Evans
A parent’s job description
•Guardian•Guide•Enormous responsibility
Memories triggered•Continual unconscious reminders
•Your childhood impacts on your parenting
The mother inside•Who mothers the mother?
•Lack of internal resources –Anxiety–Isolation–Powerlessness
Repeating patterns•Anniversaries and festive occasions are always worth watching
Margot Waddell•Feelings
–Caring, devoted, protective, loving
•Mature & sensitive responsiveness
•Mature mother
•Feelings–Infantile, hostile, dependent
•Uncertainty, ambivalence
•Powerless infant
The ‘Perfect’ Parent
Weaning and Separation
Weaning and Separation
Biddy Youell“They are subject to extreme mood
swings and are very difficult to please…”
Biddy Youell
•A period of growth in children shifts parents into the next phase of their lives
•A period of growth in children shifts parents into the next phase of their lives
Flying the nest•Letting go of the little being you have loved and nurtured
References•Waddell M (1999) Inside Lives, Chapter 8, Tavistock Clinic Series, Duckworth
•Winnicott D W (1951), Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenonema
•Youell B (2006) The Learning Relationship, Adolescence, Tavistock Clinic Series, Karnac.
Contact•Website:
–http://familyvillage.wordpress.com
•Email:–[email protected]
•Thank you. All profits go to Diabetes UK