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Usage examples of parents.

Everything the child saw his parents do and everything he heard them say is recorded in the Parent.

Therefore, if the parents were hostile and constantly battling each other, a fight was recorded with the terror produced by seeing the two persons on whom the child depended for survival about to destroy each other.

Parent are recorded all the admonitions and rules and laws that the child heard from his parents and saw in their living.

They range all the way from the earliest parental communications, interpreted nonverbally through tone of voice, facial expression, cuddling, or noncuddling, to the more elaborate verbal rules and regulations espoused by the parents as the little person became able to understand words.

This conclusion is certain if his parents do not express opposition by switching the channel.

On the other hand, there is the constant demand from the environment, essentially the parents, that he give up these basic satisfactions for the reward of parental approval.

It is the situation of child-hood and not the intention of the parents which produces the problem.

I believe that by the time the child leaves the home for his first independent social experience - school - he has been exposed to nearly every possible attitude and admonition of his parents, and thenceforth further parental communications are essentially a reinforcement of what has already been recorded.

The nurses would not wear uniforms or serve as parents to the Patients.

Were we to start from scratch in every decision or operate entirely without the data that was supplied by our parents, our computer would rarely have time for the creative process.

An extremely time-consuming conflict is produced when what parents say is true does not seem to be true to the Adult.

As the brutal parents reappear, he may shrink in horror that it will happen again.

There are realistic difficulties here, but the intensity of the feelings is not so much related to the realistic difficulties as to the original difficulty of the three-year-old child dependent upon his parents for security.

It might even be helpful to ask what his parents believe today in contrast to what they believed when his Parent was recorded.

It is as if, at some point in his childhood, he was so utterly quashed by serious, stern, duty-bound parents that he found the only safe way to proceed through life was to turn his Child off completely, or to block it out.