Caregiving Roles as Kids May Impair Parental Attunement [PsychCentral.com]

Samantha Sangenito 10/1/154:00 AM

Emerging research suggests growing up without excessive caregiving burdens is important for future mothers.

Specifically, a new study suggests mothers who took on burdensome caregiving roles as children — and weren’t allowed to just “be kids” — tend to be less sensitive to their own children’s needs.

The findings by a Michigan State University professor suggest these parents do not understand appropriate child development and end up parenting in a similar harmful manner in which they were raised.

[For more of this story, written by Rick Nauert, go to http://psychcentral.com/news/2...ng-skills/92910.html]

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One of my peers asked me today, about a friend of his. He told she was left by her parents, at age 10, with her grandparents. Shortly after, her grandfather committed suicide. She ended up having to care for her grieving grandmother, and began having "problems in school". She is now married, and the mother of a 3 year old boy....

I hope this article is helpful to my peer and his friend.

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