The environment of our family
of origin, our current family and
our work family affects us twenty-four
hours a day, seven days a week!

 

At any given time you could be parenting any one of three children.
You could parent the child that you got, the child that you wanted or
the child that you were. To the extent you are accurately parenting
the child that you got, you are more effective.

And any message we send a child should always include the
information that the child is loved and wanted.


And maybe the following:

A child wants to have fun; an adult wants to enjoy himself.

A child is self centered; an adult is aware of himself.

A child tends to be conscious; an adult tends to be unconscious.

A child is emotional; an adult is rational.


Sometimes we are the child and sometimes we are the adult.
It helps to know the difference.