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“Gentle Parenting” is yet another example of the mis-application of Carl Rogers’ work which was developed for adults, and has subsequently been proven time and again to be inappropriate for use with children because they have yet to develop a pro-social, constructive value system.
This was a timely episode. I just visited my husband's beloved aunt, in her early 80s (who lives 5 minutes away from his widowed mom, her sis-in-law), and she was lamenting (as she often does) how she wished she had heard "I love you" from her parents, and always felt they never loved her even close to how much they loved her older brother (my husband's father). This is a story she tells both herself and my husband with frequency, and while I have no idea if it is true or not (it's probably a little of both), I have deep empathy for both her and her parents--that she still feels so unloved, when her parents have been gone for years, and for my husband's grandparents, who had a very challenging, and initially unhappy, marriage (which subsequently got happier as they both got older). My husband had his own challenges with his parents growing up, and I have deep empathy for them too. No parent is perfect, and many of us are far from it. Would that we try to understand our parents' choices and accept their flaws, as challenging as they were, as we are all flawed and all make mistakes, especially with our kids.
Looked for a way to offer non-public criticism, but couldn’t easily find it. My apologies upfront. Love the content, however the audio quality is not up to todays’ standards. I suspect it’s the microphone or the recording software/hardware. A paid for subscription should be better than this. It does take away from the information being shared.
“Gentle Parenting” is yet another example of the mis-application of Carl Rogers’ work which was developed for adults, and has subsequently been proven time and again to be inappropriate for use with children because they have yet to develop a pro-social, constructive value system.
This was a timely episode. I just visited my husband's beloved aunt, in her early 80s (who lives 5 minutes away from his widowed mom, her sis-in-law), and she was lamenting (as she often does) how she wished she had heard "I love you" from her parents, and always felt they never loved her even close to how much they loved her older brother (my husband's father). This is a story she tells both herself and my husband with frequency, and while I have no idea if it is true or not (it's probably a little of both), I have deep empathy for both her and her parents--that she still feels so unloved, when her parents have been gone for years, and for my husband's grandparents, who had a very challenging, and initially unhappy, marriage (which subsequently got happier as they both got older). My husband had his own challenges with his parents growing up, and I have deep empathy for them too. No parent is perfect, and many of us are far from it. Would that we try to understand our parents' choices and accept their flaws, as challenging as they were, as we are all flawed and all make mistakes, especially with our kids.
Looked for a way to offer non-public criticism, but couldn’t easily find it. My apologies upfront. Love the content, however the audio quality is not up to todays’ standards. I suspect it’s the microphone or the recording software/hardware. A paid for subscription should be better than this. It does take away from the information being shared.
Thank you for the feedback. I had a some technical issues this week, and we did the best we could with what we had.
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