Parenting Your Parents: When They Won't Accept Help
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Allison's 80-year-old mother, Roberta, is a homemaker who raised four successful children. When her children were younger, her husband worked late and traveled a lot for his job, so she did everything from cooking dinner, helping with homework, and preparing lunches each day to getting kids ready for bed and driving them everywhere.
Roberta has so much pride that she has insisted on doing everything herself for most of her adult life. She has helped with her grandchildren and even her great grandchildren, and for her, it’s been a labor of love. Although she has had arthritis, heart problems, and some memory loss, Roberta still insists on going at the same pace as she has been to continue to assist her family. But who will help Roberta?
No one if it is up to her!
Allison has been asking her mother to accept help for months — ever since her health concerns began making it difficult for her to stand long enough to prepare a meal, let alone clean the house. But her mom keeps saying that she doesn’t want help. She wouldn't even relent when she fell and landed in the emergency room with a broken wrist. Allison is trying to figure out the best way to help her mother get
over her stubbornness and accept assistance.
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