Word: parental
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...would like to add a very important component to your "What You Can Do" list for parents: read to your children. Surround them with books. As soon as a child's ability to focus on a page develops, parents should be instilling a love of books. There is no substitute for an active, involved parent. We teachers cannot do it alone. JUDY PLAYE Whitinsville, Mass...
Call it the parent paradox: many of us love and respect the couple who reared us yet also resent the hell out of them. But social psychologist Susan Newman, author of Nobody's Baby Now (Walker & Co.), exhorts adult children to build a meaningful friendship with Mom and Dad. In researching her book, Newman interviewed 150 adults, ages 27 to 55, to investigate the tension between parents and children as they grow older. TIME spoke with Newman about barriers to a friendship with your folks and why it's critical to overcome the hurdles...
...write another book about the parent-child relationship...
...possible to become friends with a parent who is controlling, critical or overly sensitive...
Absolutely. Not every parent and child will become bosom buddies, but even if both sides have behaved horribly in the past, there is still the possibility for change if one of them wants a different relationship. With a particularly difficult parent, it may mean setting specific boundaries ("If you start commenting on my weight, I'm going to leave"). Or one might need to spend less face-to-face time together. You don't spend a whole day with a parent who drives you nuts; you spend an hour...