Donald Winnicott

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Try to get your parenting right at least 50 per cent of the time.
It’s okay for parents to get it right only half of the time

When it comes to parenting, we need only get it right half the time according to research published in the journal Child Development, by Dr Susan Wood(...)

Sheila O’Malley of Practical Parenting believes that “nobody disrespects you unless you allow them to”. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Oh, don’t worry about me: I like being bottom of the heap

It’s when you’re utterly exhausted and your baby is crying yet again . . . or you’re running all day after a toddler who has no off-switch . . . or tr(...)

Sue Jameson (centre) and Denise Guidera (second from the right) with members of the Dublin 7 Cuidiu Breastfeeding support group in Phibsboro. Photograph: Alan Betson
What’s ‘good enough’ parenting?

The “good enough mother” was a notion that was promoted by paediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott when he started broadcasting parent(...)