Good question. My ex-therapist and I spoken about inner child telling me I need to parent my inner child and help the inner child do things that my parents should have been doing as parents, but never did. I was thinking 'how do I do that? How do you parent yourself? Do you need kids in order to do it?' I felt confused and after therapy, I have been trying to "parent my inner child" to do/learn the things my parents should have taught as a kid and I can hear myself starting to cry when I can't figure something out and give up.

She didn't give me any assignments on working on my inner child. I was trying to do something at home and got very frustrated at the object, I could feel the tears in my eyes that's what I've always done when I was a kid is cry over it and get bored with it then leave. Nobody told me to work at it until you get it, how could I do that when I was called every name in the book daily?

I am still trying and feel like I am not doing a good job "parenting the inner child." I was asking myself 'how does a loving parent talk to their children when they are struggling? How do they do it?' My ex-therapist expected me to work on it on my own...really? Why even go to therapy?