Our family members are complex combos of positivity and negativity
Family relationships are complicated because people are complicated — they aren’t black and white. Nor are they gray. Rather they are a rainbow of colors a combination of shades and subtle complexities.
Take you and me for example: we have our special strengths our unresolved issues our fears and our weak points; we have our love our anger our joy and our bad moods; we have our enormous capacity for change and our stubborn rigidity. And that’s just the beginning. It’s amazing that anyone can live with us and equally amazing that we can live with them.
Slicing Reality
Children can never be sure which parent will greet them in the morning. Will it be the cool and calm Mom or the sleep-deprived Wicked Witch of the West? What about Dad? One day he’s warm and loving and the next he’s barking at everyone. How can kids make sense of the discrepancies?
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