Parenting and Presenting!

We had a Parenting Day last week and I had the experience of co-presenting with a lovely man who I admire a lot. But here’s the thing….we have never presented together before and in many ways it was a wonderful metaphor for two people plunging into the adventure of parenting with both people confident and anxious!

I found myself wondering at times if what I was saying might be different to what he believed or practised - especially given that he was, in my mind, by far the more ‘expert’ one.

To do this adventure together we had to come face to face with both our expertise – together we had 9 children, 8 grandchildren and some 45 years jointly as therapists in relationships of all sorts – and our sense of inadequacy both as parents and presenters.

Yet it is exactly this blend of expertise and inadequacy that makes both parenting AND presenting such an adventure!