 Parents in Recovery The Parenting Process helps parents connect this awareness with teachable parenting skills, so parents can prevent emotional patterns from being passed on to the next generation.. We have developed parenting guidelines based on three developmental themes (as identified by child development specialists and the latest infant research) -- these underlying principles serve as the building blocks of a healthy as opposed to a dysfunctional relationship. These relationship themes are life-long. It's not necessary for you to have received adequate parenting in your family in order to address these issues successfully, but you do have to have new experiences along with being educated about them. Bonding, is about creating safe attachments. It is important to learn how to establish trust and a feeling of connectedness and closeness in our relationships with our children. We want to create a safe space without invading them for emotional contact or abandoning them. When we are able to do this, our relationship with our children becomes a container which holds them, a safe place within which they can learn to tolerate, contain, and express their own emotions. |