My sister and I both have young kids now and we've started talking about how angry our mother was when we were growing up, but we can't agree on how much of that was her fault versus the circumstances she was dealing with, and it's affecting how we think about our own parenting.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are trying to make sense of their shared childhood while their different interpretations of their mother's emotional state influence their own parenting approaches.
“Where Are You with The parent's inner life — what children bring up?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.