It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent: Stories of . Johnston<|

It Takes a Child to Raise a ParentStories of Evolving Child and Parent Development\nAuthor(s): Janis Clark Johnston\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781442221611, 978-1442221611\nSynopsis\nWhile advice abounds from a variety of sources before parents embark on their parenting journeys, the only parent preparation we actually receive comes from our family and peer stories. Yet most adults do not realize that in day-to-day challenges of guiding our children, something interesting happens. As we steer our children through life, we reopen our own childhood roads. Just when our child most needs us, we become needy ourselves: as adults and parents, we find that we have unresolved raising issues, basic needs that were not met in our childhoods. Our needs and memories echo and influence many of the parenting decisions we make, even though were unaware of those influences at times. \n\nFortunately, children he.