Good-enough parenting is NOT severe abuse. That is the type of parenting that would rise to the level that warrants a child protection response and removal from the parent’s care by the state. It indicates a strong inability to look after a child’s physical and emotional needs. In the UK, a child is defined as …
As described in our article on Attachment Strategies, Dr Patricia Crittenden, an American Psychologist who is best known for her work in the field of attachment theory and lead creator of the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation maintains that All parents harm their children more or less, just as all are more or …
Donald Winnicott was a British Paediatrician and Psychoanalyst who focused on the medical care and development of young children. He found that parenting did not need to be perfect to ensure successful child development and championed “the sound instincts of normal parents” against high standards expected of parents by professional experts1 p, 173. In 1953, …
