334 / Parent or not: finding networks of care
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334 / Parent or not: finding networks of care
One way to offer more support to employees is to create a parents’ network for both fathers and mothers.
Jennifer Garcia-Alonso • Lightening the Mental Load That Holds Women Back
As many lonely people discover far too late, the reliance of children on their parents and, subsequently, of parents on their children, and the reliance of members of communities on each other, are what fill our lives with meaning, our social bonds with substance and warmth, and our futures with hope.
Moshe Koppel • Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures
Winnicott’s crucial insight was that the parents’ agony was coming from a particular place: excessive hope. Their despair was a consequence of a cruel and counterproductive perfectionism. To help them reduce this, Winnicott developed a charming phrase: ‘the good enough parent’. No child, he insisted, needs an ideal parent. They just need an OK, pre
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