My thoughts on parental thinking from the children

This blog posts focuses on a personal observation of mine regarding the Parent – Adult – Child model (from the Transactional analysis model).

So, the model basically says that there are three ego-states for people:

• Parent: a state in which people behave, feel, and think like their parents did; So, someone might be very upset with other persons being rich, just because its parents were like that;
• Adult: a state of the ego which is about processing information and prediction emotions that might interfere with this process; This is an objective thinking of the world;
• Child: persons tend to behave, feel and think like they did when they were children; From here come emotions, creativity, spontaneity.

Now, from my perspective, most adults tend to think like either adults or parents, while the elder persons tend to think in parental ways.

How about the children? Of course, a lot of them are into child thinking.

I personally like the adult thinking the most.

But here comes an observation of mine: children also tend to think in parental ways. Why? Because most of the time an adult won’t say to a kid: “You should think”, it says instead “It’s best to do this and that”.

And this leads to some patterns in parental thinking. At least this is what I personally observed.

To sum up things, some children tend to have a rather interesting way of thinking just like a parent.