The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.
Interpretation
The bond between a parent and child is crucial for mental health.
This quote emphasizes the significant impact that the relationship between a parent and child has on mental well-being. It suggests that a strong, supportive connection can serve as the most effective means of fostering emotional health and resilience during challenging times.
In practice
In a parenting workshop about building strong family ties.
People have a range of capacities to deal with overwhelming experience. Some people, some kids particularly, are able to disappear into a fantasy world, to dissociate, to pretend like it isnt happening, and are able to go on with their lives. And sometimes it comes back to haunt them.
Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.
I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book, off in its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done; swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he wound up with.
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.
He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.
I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.
My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.
One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.
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