Tag: boundaries

Backbone Parenting: Parent or Friend?

Mar 11, 2015

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Dr. Anne Brown

in Parenting, Relationship

“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.” Carl Jung Parent: according to Webster’s dictionary, means a person who brings up and cares for another. Let’s think of our children as an empty vessel. The vessel, which we will say is the child’s individuality, is empty and needs to…
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. ~Henry David Thoreau

Mar 17, 2014

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Dr. Anne Brown

in Addiction, Codependency, Mental Health, News, Relationship, Self-Help

Keep making those Requests Making requests may seem like such a simple thing. Of course I do that you say to yourself. Check again it can be the root of many negative emotions especially resentment. I have a friend of many years who as a teenager was experimenting with a rocket that exploded in his…