Parenting Styles
This parenting style is overly demanding, sets very high expectations, and does not allow children to speak up.
Too strict
This type of father is unable to spend much time with their children due to death, divorce, or work, and misses day-to-day decisions.
Absent Father
This core hardship happens when a child suffers without anyone recognizing or believing their distress, causing them to hold it inside.
Emotional pain
This source frequently presents unrealistic, "perfect" two-parent families that rarely experience real emotional or financial problems.
The media
This is the name of the comprehensive recovery management program that features Session 23.
Living in Balance
This parenting style constantly gives in to children's demands and lacks clear, consistent rules.
Too lenient
This type of father acts as an equal to avoid verbal or physical confrontation, leaving rule-making and discipline to the mother.
Buddy-type father
This painful experience occurs when parents are so caught up in their own needs that they frequently leave, neglect, or reject a child.
Abandonment
Historically and customarily in our society, this specific family member is expected to take primary care of the children.
A female family member
Program participants are asked to complete this specific writing exercise for both parents, though they are explicitly told they do not have to send them.
Writing a letter
Instead of firm guidance, this style involves outbursts where parents scream at, embarrass, or strongly criticize their kids.
Too harsh
This type of father may be physically present but does not communicate his feelings, leaving children to guess what he wants.
Distant Dad
When a parent fails to protect a child from physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, the child experiences this secondary painful feeling.
Feeling abandoned, alone, or afraid
Even in a healthy household, a mother's natural emotional shifts can cause a child to mistakenly develop this internal belief.
That they are the cause of their mother's changing moods
Facilitators are advised to split clients into groups based on this specific category to make deep parental discussions more comfortable.
Separate gender groups
This is the simplified definition used in this program to describe any of the parental or authority figures who raised you.
"Parents"
Driven by psychiatric conditions, medical issues, or addiction, this style of father alternates between periods of calm and violence.
Unpredictable father
***DAILY DOUBLE***
In families with high conflict or addiction, children are often forced prematurely into these.
(Question is worth double the points, answering incorrectly results in losing the original value of 400)
Adult roles and responsibilities
This internal psychological development becomes insecure and frightened in adults who grew up with unpredictable mothers.
The inner voice
This is the primary objective of exploring childhood memories, rather than assigning blame to your parents.
Identifying what happened and how it affects you today
According to researchers, children are more likely to face these two specific types of life challenges if raised with inconsistent or overly strict rules.
Social/emotional challenges and substance use disorders
This father encourages emotional growth, sets healthy boundaries, and views his children as individuals.
Healthy father
Adults who felt abandoned as children often unconsciously repeat this destructive behavioral pattern in their adult relationships.
Entering relationships where they are likely to be abandoned again
This type of family structure places an even greater influence on the mother because she acts as the primary role model.
A single-parent home
If a parent caused you severe childhood trauma, the text states that this healing step may not actually be warranted or required.
Forgiveness