{"id":3028,"date":"2023-06-23T15:13:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T19:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/parenting-advice-from-mister-rogers-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-06-23T15:13:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T19:13:20","slug":"parenting-advice-from-mister-rogers-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/parenting-advice-from-mister-rogers-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting Advice from Mister Rogers \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Being responsible for ourselves, knowing our own wants and meeting them, is difficult enough \u2014 so difficult that the notion of being responsible for anyone else, knowing anyone else\u2019s innermost desires and slaking them, seems like a superhuman feat. And yet the entire history of our species rests upon it \u2014 the scores of generations of parents who, despite the near-impossibility of getting it right, have raised small defenseless creatures into a capable continuation of the species. This recognition is precisely what made Donald Winnicott\u2019s notion of good-enough parenting<\/a> so revolutionary and so liberating, and what Florida Scott Maxwell held in mind when she considered the most important thing to remember about your mother<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And yet to be a parent is to suffer the ceaseless anxiety of getting it wrong.<\/p>\n

A touching antidote to that anxiety comes from Fred Rogers<\/strong> (March 20, 1928\u2013February 27, 2003) in Dear Mister Rogers, Does It Ever Rain in Your Neighborhood?<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>) \u2014 the collection of his letters to and from parents and children. <\/p>\n

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