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Like it or not, all parents have ambivalent feelings toward their children. Child development expert Joyce Catlett talks about where these feelings come from and how we can best deal with them in ourselves without hurting our children.
Like it or not, all parents have ambivalent feelings toward their children. Child development expert Joyce Catlett talks about where these feelings come from and how we can best deal with them in ourselves without hurting our children.
Nope, thank goodness! I’ve said it time and again, I love my kid to bits but some times he drives me up the wall so much that I wanna strangle him. I understand the feeling-ashamed bit, but especially for us single parents it’s important to realize and accept that yes, your child’s rearing is responsible for your life condition discomfort but not the child itself. It’s OK to hate not being able to go out anymore, but that doesn’t mean you hate your kid for it. You just hate “it”.