Parents

Davido and his dad

Davido’s Father

I recently had a conversation with a well-traveled Nigerian who narrated a story about a rich-parented Nigerian who was caught cheating during an examination abroad. He ended the story by saying the moral of his…




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The Fantasy Connection We Keep With Our Parents

How the parent we keep inside our head can limit or hurt us. By Lisa Firestone Ph.D.The relationship we have with our parents or primary caretakers is almost never black and white. Some of us…


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How to Be A Parent When You Never Had One

By Hara Estroff Marano I was repeatedly abused as a child and was passed from one foster home to the next. Now I am a mother to a young child, and I am intensely afraid…


Blaming parents

Blaming Mom And/Or Dad

By Hara Estroff Marano I recently turned 42 and blame my parents for my lack of social skills. We moved to four different school districts before I was 8. At 12, I had a few…