A Good Enough Parent

The best advice I ever got on bringing up my two fantastic children came from Bruno Bettelhiem's "A Good Enough Parent". This inspiring and somewhat controversial psychologist said,

 "...to be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one's parenthood, and one's relation to one's child...the security of the parent about being a parent will eventually become the source of the child's feeling secure about himself".

Bettelhiem argued that parents should not live totally by the word of experts, theorists and psychologists. Rather they should trust themselves to know instinctively what will be right for their children. Becoming a good enough parent is about....

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