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Click here for previous Articles, Psych Bytes, News, and Book Reviews by topic. March 2008 PARENTING JOURNAL
The questions listed here are not exhaustive and Eileen Paris and Thomas
Paris in their book previously mentioned, list many more questions,
but at least this list can help get you started in understanding your
own past childhood experiences. As you gain more of an understanding
of your own childhood experiences, Thomas Paris and Eileen Paris go
on to describe how you can develop and use a Parenting Journal to record
continual or regular parent-child conflicts that upset or aggravate
you. In the Parenting Journal, you first write the specific incident
that leads you to be upset with your child. Secondly, you write the
injury or emotional experience that you observed in yourself, i.e. did
you feel not listened to? Did you feel ignored? Did you feel that your
child did not value your opinion? etc. and Finally you rate that injury
from 1 to 10 depending on the level of impact or emotional intensity
that injury or emotional experience had on you. 1 is minor or mild and
10 is extremely intense.
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