Things Worth Considering

There is no harder job, and the one with the least training and we the least experience. Being housed with our children during the pandemic poses lots of problems but also lots od chances to discover who your children are, what kind of people they will grow to become. This episode looks at how we parent, what we learned about parenting from our parents. What kind of parent are you? Authoritarian, Permissive, Uninvolved or Authoritative - each of these 4 styles of parenting are uniquely different and create a different experience for children born into these styles. How do children learn to connect and interact with the world through the eyes of these parenting styles. In her book All Joy and No Fun Jennifer senior wrote: Children learn from the world through doing, touching and experiencing; adults on the other hand, tend to take in the world through their heads - reading books, watching TV swiping touch screens, Is there a place for parent and child to meet?