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Working with parents of children in therapy is very challenging. Parents seek advice rather than insight into their relationship with their children. This places considerable pressure on the therapist, who is striving to provide psychodynamic understanding without implying blame. Doing so requires considerable tact. One needs to learn first about the parents' history with their own parents. This paper considers the process of developing rapport with the parents to help make them aware of the role of their own histories and its impact on their relationship with their children.