Parentflux

The ongoing capacity to update parenting roles, language, authority, and ways of relating in response to the development of both parent and child and to changing circumstances and capacities.

Example

A parent shifts from expecting to approve an adult child’s decisions to asking what kind of support would be helpful. The adult child communicates their needs and boundaries, and both make room to learn who the other is becoming. Their ways of relating update as their lives, capacities, and needs change.