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Are you “Nurturing-deficient”?
Musings: What does it mean to be a parent?
4 min readSep 1, 2019
A Nurturing-deficiency is simply a state of being(which means you can move away from it) when one or both of these conditions occur:
- You aren’t apt enough to nurture someone else.
- You’re too afraid of nurturing someone else.
This topic came about as I was just thinking about the whole concept of parenthood.
My opinion:
I agree with the notion that NOT everyone is meant to be a parent.
Perhaps I have too high an expectation for what it means to be a decent parent? Perhaps I’m just overthinking?
You let me know…
There are so many things you have to do to do a good job:
- How to take care of a helpless fragile human baby,
- How to make sure they can take care of themselves
- And finally, how to let go…