The Good Enough Parent. Lessons in Issues.

There is no such thing as a blameless parent. For much of the modern era, the story of becoming an adult has been told to us as one of psychological liberation: As they grow up, people will notice how many of their difficulties, especially around love and work, can be traced back to inadequacies in their childhoods. They will realise, for example, how much their low self-esteem owes to their relationship with a withholding mother, or how much of their timidity at work can be traced back to an overanxious father. Slowly they will develop their full potential by reflecting on what happened and by untangling the past with the help of friends, diaries