From “Serve Me” to Self-Sufficiency

Autonomy-Supportive Diaries

I’ll never forget the mother in my office who looked at me with that “I’m so over it” face as she described how her 11-year-old yells for her from the basement instead of getting up to do what he’s begging her to do for him. As this mother’s son directed her to do something for him while in my office, she said “I’m not your servant” to which he replied,…