Of course, part of what is going on is that parents find it difficult to cope with their children showing grief, and actually (I suspect) take it much harder on themselves than perhaps the children do. Hence the instinct to say, oh, the dog has just gone away, or, you won't be seeing grandad for a while.
On a related note, I'll always remember an article in the Guardian about a mother who had hit on this new psychological technique to get her child to eat properly; reading her own account, it was absolutely clear that although she didn't realise it, she was the one whose behaviour was being affect by this new "treatment".
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Date: 2007-02-04 07:41 pm (UTC)On a related note, I'll always remember an article in the Guardian about a mother who had hit on this new psychological technique to get her child to eat properly; reading her own account, it was absolutely clear that although she didn't realise it, she was the one whose behaviour was being affect by this new "treatment".