18:32 May 15, 2019 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Social Sciences - Psychology / parenting | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Robert Forstag United States Local time: 20:54 | ||||||
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and keeping each other from failing/sinking Explanation: My opinion. |
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our own support team our own best source of [psychological/moral] support in dealing with the difficulties of parenting Explanation: The idea seems to be mainly that of developing sufficient emotional maturity to rely on one's own general good judgment - while acknowledging and forgiving one's mistake. There is an implicit opposition here to an attitude of pervasive self-doubt about one's parenting capacities and unending guilt and torment over mistakes committed. This, at any rate, is my reading. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 mins (2019-05-15 18:45:00 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Support team" is apparently used here as synonymous with "support group," a very common term in pscyhogical contexts (especially addiction recovery) in US English. It refers to those persons on whom the affected person can rely for support in dealing with the problem he or she is facing. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2019-05-16 01:25:47 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- “Support group” or - probably more frequently - “support system” is used in the contexts that I mentioned, and that are relevant to your extract. Example: Bill is an alcoholic in early recovery whose support system consists of his brother, his best friend Jack, his AA sponsor Bob, and a couple of other persons in his AA group who have gained his trust. |
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