Without this inner parent, we'd never recognize the inner child that holds the key to our true and authentic selves.
I think I fled from my helicopter-ish stepmum because I knew in my heart that she would try to squash my budding inner parent.
As an adult, only by becoming our own loving inner parent -- our own loving inner Mom and Dad -- can this pain heal.
My inner parent was constantly in conflict with my inner child - I wanted to do the right thing for my body and health, but I also wanted to enjoy my food.
But he knows her by name, and our inner parent lets out a sigh of relief -- until he compliments her again on her bathing suit.
Your plans will backfire because you will feel even more threatened by others' reactions, and your own conscience (like your inner parent) telling you that you're being bad.
The interventions may concentrate on outer, observable behaviour and/or on the inner images the parent has of his or her child and him or herself.
But in the inner cities, where parents have a choice of local schools, playgrounds are more segregated than neighbourhoods, suggesting that families are choosing to educate their children with others of the same race.
And as a consequence, some of the social patterns that contribute to declining mobility that were once attributed to the urban poor -- that's a particular problem for the inner city: single-parent households or drug abuse -- it turns out now we're seeing that pop up everywhere".
