The hard, healing, integrative work we do on ourselves, first as people, then as parents, it turns out will pay big dividends. I tend to think of the benefits of this work as a kind of “anti-stimulus package.” Our children’s children, and perhaps even their children are slated to be saddled with a crushing burden [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Easing the Burden on Our Children’s Children’s Children
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On Parenting a Murderer
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
One Sunday a number of years ago I opened the morning paper and there staring back at me on the front page was the picture of a good friend. He’d been arrested for brutally murdering one of his clients. Confusion, shock and disbelief were my first responses – I’d just been playing poker with him [...]
Detoxing Toxic Parent Brain
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »
by Jeanne Denney
Last week I wrote a column here on The Committed Parent about my experience with a phenomenon I call Toxic Parent Brain (TPB). This is a state in which my more wise, mature and rational self disappears, leaving my nervous system subject to all kinds of irrational fears, anxieties, angers and criticisms of [...]
