Posted by:
Richard Foxe
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Date: October 12, 2013 08:09AM
in order to present a travesty. "Family roles" is a very broad area and psychology is just starting to reveal the effects of its dynamics. (Psychologist and UCLA professor Daniel Siegel's "Parenting from the Inside Out" is a great place to start--but I realize you don't have a lot of prep time.
I assume of course that your class will be adults, not whole families, so the aim would be to assist them to be better parents. A very interesting online course I took last year is by Miriam Martineau, "Parenting as a Spiritual Practice." It's important for parents to 'meet' their children at the children's stage of psychological and neurological development. She has a vimeo talk about this, with practical suggestions, at
http://vimeo.com/64973592