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Session 6: Conflict and Parenting

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If you made a holiday card to send around this year, chances are you selected a photo of your children smiling and laughing or one of the whole family smiling, perhaps with arms around each other. Or perhaps you made a photo collection of your last holiday with images of smiling happy children and smiling happy parents.

“Life is stress, and so is evolution…Fetuses must struggle with mothers who have lives of their own and might reproduce again; then the two must go through labor and delivery, the timing of which cannot be ideal for both. Parent-offspring conflict pervades this and later interactions; if the mother becomes pregnant again, the siblings are immediately in competition with each other. Siblicide in frogs, birds, and princes shows the extreme of this competition, as pedicide and abandonment show the extreme of parent-offspring competition.”

Konner, 2010

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Bögels, S., Restifo, K. (2014). Session 6: Conflict and Parenting. In: Mindful Parenting. Mindfulness in Behavioral Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7406-7_10

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