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How to prepare emotionally for the death of a difficult parent – Jeff Brown

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://soulshaping.com/soulshaping/difficult-parent/ Helpful piece, thanks Jeff. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994

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Ending Power Struggles with Children – Hand in Hand Parenting – Patty Wipfler

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.handinhandparenting.org/article/ending-power-struggles-with-children/ At the heart of person centred is the idea that we each have inherent value, and that there is a fundamental equality between us. Whatever differences there may be in our life experience, culture, age, gender, race, ability, education, … Continue reading →

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4 Ways Parents Teach Kids that Consent Doesn’t Matter: Parenting Gently with Paige

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Thank you (once again) to Monica Cassani and her site http://www.beyondmeds.com for posting this. A really useful short film about 4 basic changes we can all make to ways of parenting that are culturally common, but which can make it … Continue reading →

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C.S. Lewis on Putting Away Childish Things

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at … Continue reading →

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Gordon Neufeld: What makes a child easy to parent?

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Just been having a conversation with someone about conscious parenting, and she mentioned this man. He’s a Canadian developmental psychologist. She described him as profoundly person-centred – emphasis on relationship: the quality and nature of the relational engagement between parent … Continue reading →

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