#36 Are You Parenting Your Parents? - Keep the elderly independent and happy

The definition of parenting for a child: The natural ability, qualities, and acts of all parents to nurture, love, provide, and contribute to the development of their child or children in a nonjudgmental, fair and just way and to create a united family environment where parents and their child or children have a positive and loving relationship with their parents.

Here's the word parenting as defined for caregiving: Parenting
Performing the role of a parent by caregiving, nurturance, and protection of the child by a natural or substitute parent. The parent supports the child by exercising authority and through consistent, empathic, appropriate behavior in response to the child's needs. PARENTING differs from CHILD REARING in that in child-rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the children and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behavior of the parent.
See the difference? Read it very carefully because many caregivers make the mistake of feeling as if they need to "train" or "form" their aging parents into something different from who they are. Please share this podcast with anyone you know who refers to their role as parenting for their parents to help them understand their role. You might make their day by showing them, they can loosen up on the reigns, if they are trying too hard to manage their parent's care.

Include yourself in the care you give by being a positive parent!

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Differences in Caregiving and Parenting: https://centerforfamilyinvolvementblog.org/2019/11/22/caregiving-and-parenting-are-not-the-same/ Bossy Caregiver: https://www.carepathways.com/articles/what-to-do-when-caregiver-is-bossy-lazy-or-grouchy.cfm Elder Abuse https://ovc.ojp.gov/program/elder-fraud-abuse/national-elder-fraud-hotline Medicaid https://www.medicare.gov/

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