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Florence, 96; still going strong; to be slightly hard of hearing.
1. What proves that in spite of the differences in the age they have a lot of in common?
a strong link; to be blood-related; it carries through the generations; to keep very close together; a big get-together.
2. How do the 5 generations manage to keep up a good relationship? Without disagreement, clashing?
a) to strive for independence; to be all powerful women; “Living together we don’t necessarily get on very well”; to spark off; to be healthy; not to suppress and pretend what you are not feeling, that you are a jolly happy family; to be part of humanity;
b) to live separately; to have many interests in life; to live away from each other; to get on very well.
3. Which period as the grandmother thinks was the toughest in her relationship with her daughter? How does she account for it?
a teenager; to have battles; to cope with; to get smb into one’s way of thinking before they get to 12 or 13; to be individuals; to want more freedom; to have plenty.
4. Does the daughter admit that since she became a mother herself, her understanding of and closeness with her mother has increased?
“Absolutely”; to do universally; “That’s the stuff women are made of.”
FOSTER PARENTS
to have 4 children of one’s own; to have fostered 40 over the years; to get an award (much deserved)
1. How do the parents explain the fact that having 4 children of their own they foster other peoples’, currently 15 at a time? What are they guided by?
to have an abundance of love and affection to give all these children; hard work; hard to cope; to physically have enough time.
2. What important observation does the mother make? Is it a one-way benefit - the relationship between parents and children?
“Children give you so much. You learn a lot from children.”
3. What is the main thing that they, as foster parents, try to give their foster children and, in these efforts teach their own children to do?
different relationship; not fair; to be special; to feel insecure; to part; to prepare smb.
4. What do you think of people who either have a lot of children of their own or adopt many children?
IVAN SOKOLOV
1. What did a recent survey reveal concerning the number of single parent families in Britain?
2. Why did I. Sokolov found the fund “Parent Link”? What is its purpose?
to change the patterns; to improve; to repeat the patterns; to do what was done to us or the opposite; to need help; support and encouragement practically.
3. What is the biggest issue of the single parent family in I. Sokolov opinion?
to give security in feelings; to talk openly; to communicate; to listen to children; to encourage to express their feelings; to jump down smb’s throat; to zip it up; to keep it to themselves.
4. How does I. Sokolov prove the importance of a child’s communication with both parents, even in a split family?
a balance; both sexes; to need the experience of living with men and women; to need a switch, a balance of energy; “We don’t choose to be single parents.”
5. Can a relative of the nuclear family fill the gap?
single family/nuclear family; (not) to allow non-parents to come in contact with one’s children (pseudo-parents).
CAROL STONE
a TV presenter, programme “Mother of Mine”; to carry out interviews with smb for TV
1. Do children need their parents’ approval or “sanctions” for their actions, achievements, plans? Do they “rebel” in case they don’t get them?
2. What important, universally recognized observation does Carol Stone make about the specific relationship between children and parents, particularly mothers?
to be stripped of all pretence in the presence of one’s parents; to know smb backward; to give unconditional love (“There’s nothing that my mother wouldn’t have forgiven me for. It gives you security.”)
3. Why is it important, in Carol’s opinion, to give children security in their own homes?
to wake up to the harsh world that won’t give it to you.
4. Why doesn’t Carol approve of “overprotective mothers”?
the danger of leading one’s life through the child, of wanting you to be what you don’t want to yourself.
5. What proves that mothers are generally very possessive and even jealous of their sons?
“No woman is good enough for her son.”
ANN RAEBURN (journalist)
to write extensively on the problem
1. Why does Ann think there can't be any universal concept of a good parent?
to strike smb most forcibly; to be totally unfair; “the lock of the drawer”.
2. What does she mean by saying that the interviews in the studio have highlighted for her “the extraordinary accepting nature of children”?
to have no great retrospective (Ulrika); to throw things at smb; to be moved by the differences.
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