Terri Edmonston and Jack Edmonston
Recorded
January 13, 2021
Archived
January 13, 2021
43:01 minutes
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Id:
mby020317
Description
Terri Edmonston (49) and her father Jack Edmonston (78) reflect on their family history and share parenting stories.Subject Log / Time Code
JE reads a card TE wrote to him in her teens. TE: "You always said I looked beautiful."
JE and TE talk about TE's grandmother. TE remembers running away from home and riding her bike to her grandmother's house to get to a safe space.
JE talks about his family history.
JE shares that his father graduated from Harvard in 1932. He remembers his father got mentally sick and shares that his father received a lobotomy.
TE talks about her grandmother and shares that she loved talking to people and had a genuine interest in them.
JE: "You don't appreciate people until you lose them." TE: "It didn't matter that she couldn't go anywhere because the world came to her."
JE and TE remember the prejudice their relatives faced because they were Italian.
TE asks JE what he learned about parenting from his mother.
TE shares that she has two kids and talks about parenting.
JE talks about TE's brother having difficulty with motor skills when he was a baby.
TE talks about stepping back as a parent instead of pushing.
TE asks JE if his parents were critical with him.
JE: "I think that you are a better mother than, even a better mother than my mother was and a better mother than I was a father." TE shares that she knows how to parent because she knows what she doesn't want to be like.
JE: "Everybody should have that. Everybody should have somebody who thinks they're perfect."
JE remembers when TE shared that she was gay.
TE talks about exploring their good and bad sides and shares that children should be allowed to make bad choices so they can learn.
TE talks about the importance of building her daughter back up if she causes her any hurt.
Participants
- Terri Edmonston
- Jack Edmonston