Are You Addicted to Your Children?

Written by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.


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Title: Are You Addicted to Your Children? Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com Copyright: © 2004 by Margaret Paul Web Address: http://www.innerbonding.com Word Count: 690 Category: Parenting

ARE YOU ADDICTED TO YOUR CHILDREN? Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

Is it possible to be using our children addictively?

Anything that we use to get love, avoid pain, and fill up inner emptiness can become an addiction – even our children! If your children are your whole life – if you don’t have a strong spiritual connection with a personal source of love and guidance, as well as other relationships and interests that you are passionate about, you might be using your children to fill an empty place within you.

If you don’t have a partner or your relationship with your partner is not fulfilling to you, and you don’t have deeply connected and meaningful friendships, then you might be using your kids as your major emotional connection. If you don’t have hobbies or work that are compelling and fulfilling to you, you might be using your children to give meaning to your life. If you don’t have a daily spiritual practice that brings love and comfort to your soul, you might be using your children to fill this need.

If this is what you are doing, it is not good for your children. It is a huge burden on children to be responsible for their parent’s loneliness and sense of purpose. Children who feel this responsibility often become caretakers, giving themselves up to take care of a parent. Onrepparttar 111202 other hand, a child burdened with this responsibility may rebel and distance fromrepparttar 111203 parent, spending less and less time at home to avoidrepparttar 111204 burden ofrepparttar 111205 parent’s emptiness.

I grew up as an only child with a mother who had nothing fulfilling in her life – other than me. Her whole focus was on me, and because I couldn’t possibly fill her up inrepparttar 111206 way she needed to be filled, she was often angry at me. I became a good little girl, a good caretaker of my mother, butrepparttar 111207 result was that I was a nervous and unhappy child, and wanted to be away from my house as much as possible.

Cat lovers and cat associations around the world

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A cat association is an organization that registers cats and kittens, selects cat show judges and conducts many cat shows and cat competitions. A cat association also controls cat clubs. The winner of cat show is provided with trophies, awards or medals. The Cat Fanciers Association (CFA) sponsors about 650 cat clubs inrepparttar USA. There are many cat associations in USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Japan and other countries. The Cat Fancier's Association isrepparttar 111200 largest cat association inrepparttar 111201 world. Visitrepparttar 111202 website of Cat Fancier's association at http://www.cfainc.org/, visitrepparttar 111203 website of Cat Fancier's at http://www.fanciers.com/, visitrepparttar 111204 website of The International Cat Association at http://www.tica.org/ and visitrepparttar 111205 website of American Cat Fancier's Association at http://www.acfacat.com/. The Cat Fancier's Association registers more than 80000 cats and kittens annually. The other famous cat associations include The International Cat Association (TICA),repparttar 111206 American Cat Fancier's Association (ACFA) andrepparttar 111207 Canadian Cat Association, In Europe,repparttar 111208 largest cat association is Federation Internationale Feline De Europe. A single cat show may have eight to twenty different judges. After judging each cat within a particular breed,repparttar 111209 judge gives out preliminary awards, such as best of colour or best of breed. There are hundreds of cat breeders inrepparttar 111210 USA. The first cat show was held in crystal palace in England in 1871 whilerepparttar 111211 first cat show in USA was held in Medison Square in 1895. The Intellectuals aroundrepparttar 111212 world are keeping cats as pets. Dr. William Grier left US $ 415000 for his two pet cats when he died. The richest single cat inrepparttar 111213 world is white alley who inherited US $ 250000. In September 1996, a Businessman of Thailand spent 18000 Pounds forrepparttar 111214 marriage of his male diamond eyed pet cat named Phet with a female diamond eyed pet cat named Ploy because his male pet cat loved a female cat. The marriage was attended by 500 guests. The cats were given a dowry of US $ 23202. The newly wedded cats received US $ 60000 in cash and wedding presents. Cardinal Richelieu left lifetime pensions for his fourteen pet cats. Lord Chesterfield

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