The role of your inner parent is different from your social role. One thing to note is not to confuse your inner parent’s role with your social role. Some parents take their work roles home with them and are unable to separate their role at home from their role at work. The parent of one of my students asked me for a weekly report on her child’s behavior. I had to rate the child on a scale from one to ten. Doesn’t this sound very much like doing an annual appraisal in a company? My dad is a supervisor at work and also at home. He doesn’t realize that we are not his subordinates and we don’t
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