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Parenting your parent.(TRADE SECRETS)(Brief article)

NEA Today

| April 01, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 1994 National Education Association of the United States. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The skills you use on the job can help another member with a dilemma on the home front.

* THIS MONTH: Cynthia Baird, who teaches English at Sangre de Cristo High School in Monte Vista, Colorado, offers insights on caring for aging parents.

The care of an aging parent is a journey, and, as with any journey, the first steps are the hardest, full of reversals and revelations. The journey begins with acceptance. It continues with awareness. It requires attention to self and attention to others. It calls for honesty in emotions. It demands the relinquishing of any sense of …

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