Walking On Eggshells: A Response Paper

My take-away from “Walking on Eggshells” is that parents can be their own worst critique and parenting can be “tricky” we you try to navigate the parent-adult child relationship. When I say “tricky”, I mean that parents and older children form a new relationship as they go through different stages in life. Parents want to continue treating their adult children the same way they always have, but this can cause a rift or strain on the relationship. In the book, I noticed many parents felt guilty for things that happened with their children and some of the children blamed their parents. Naturally, a parent wants to fix any problems that come up with their kids and now they can’t. I think about my own relationship with my parents and how it has changed over the years. No matter how our relationship has changed I will always love them. I am a parent now myself and I hope as my child grows I continue to remember this book and how I can keep our relationship strong.

The Belsky (1984) model of parenting relates to the Isay (2008) reading because through the model we see that parents influence their child’s development and the child’s characteristic is influenced by the parent and it’s a cycle. We can see in the text that parents of older children have to adjust the way they parent in order to meet the older child’s needs. This meaning that older children’s characteristic change with their development. This relationship fits into the diagram model of