Whether
the parents feel let down or they don't want to hear or understand the real issues, I want to be able to help bridge that gap in an effort to turn things around and make the situation a win - win.»
Although components of Global Village continue under the renewal school initiative, services were disrupted during the transition and
parents felt let down again.
Not exact matches
Palmer reached out to a wide range of pediatricians to find out how they
feel about these
parents, and he was surprised to encounter mostly sadness rather than anger on the part of these doctors, who often
feel like they've
let their patients
down by not convincing them to vaccinate.
I
feel like I am
letting my
parents down as well since we used to go to the same church service that they did.
Sometimes
parents themselves, bombarded with nannying advice about how they should teach their children to be «safe»,
feel that they are
letting their children
down if they don't give their ten year old explicit sex instruction.
The jittery
feeling in your body (part excitement, part fear), tense muscles, excessive thinking about «what if...» (fill in the blank here), and dread about not wanting to
let down teammates, coach and
parents.
It can
feel difficult at times when my guard is
down and I hear
parenting advice from the status quo, such as babies should sleep alone in their own beds or that you should
let her cry it out!
But there was much more value in
letting my defenses
down and listening, really listening, to what other
parents did, how their babies slept, and how they
felt as
parents.
She writes, ``... by the time children get big enough to venture out on their own — to the grocery store, to a friend's house
down the street — their
parents feel strange about
letting them go, believing the world to be a dangerous place.»
Athletes can
feel like they are
letting down their teammates, coaches or
parents if they ask to sit out due to an injury.
Instead, the characters portrayed here are dealing with problems regular people handle, like
feeling let down by
parents or acquaintances, school fights that are broken up by teachers and administrative staff, or family pets that get sick.
At times he
feels he is
letting his
parents down: a dutiful child should remember being cared for from the first.
It is because of this that creating a
feeling of safety for the child is so important, so they can
let down their defenses and process all the positive things we
parents want to give them.
If being talked
down to makes you
feel like a child, and is something you're overly sensitive about due to a
parent who talked to you in a similar fashion, acknowledge that and
let your partner know how it relates and makes you
feel.
As the remaining
parent, you may
feel let down and angry.