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Attachment Styles & Reflective Parenting – an Introduction- Part 1

Discussion led by: Alan Slomowitz, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist (QJC member)
Division I Candidate in Psychoanalysis, William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology & Clinic Fellow at the William Alanson White institute Psychotherapy Clinic
 
Pizza and babysitting provided
Cost: $5 per family
 
Topic: There is no such thing as a baby; only a parent-baby couple. The attachment of baby to parent and parent to baby, which begins at birth, is a crucial developmental process. The better we understand how we become attached to each other the better parents we can be. Our children usually become attached to us in a secure fashion but sometimes attachment becomes disrupted. How can we become more aware of what might be happening?
 How many parents have found themselves thinking: "I can't believe I just said to my child the very thing my parents used to say to me. . .  Am I just destined to repeat the mistakes of my parents?" When we become a parent, we all bring with us issues from our own past that influence the way we parent our children. By making sense of our lives we can deepen a capacity for self-understanding and bring coherence to our emotional experience, our views of the world, and our interactions with our children.  We will explore together our experiences of being parents and interacting with our children.
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