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  1. I have always told my kids, if you behaved in conflict with good values, you should feel badly. If you don't you're a psychopath. Uncomfortable emotions are there not only to guide us to the right choice for us, they also signal to us that we went off the rails, maybe a little, maybe a lot. The feeling of shame, guilt, and fear of banishment are there to teach you to interact in a way that benefits the tribe. I know parents who try to stifle any signal their child could get that would make them unhappy or to feel inferior.

    You have to feel inferior just the right amount to motivate you to improve. Disallowing negative emotions is inhibiting development. Trying to remove all danger, whether physical, emotional, or psychological is basically telling your kid that you have no confidence in them, you don't believe in them, and they need you to buffer the terrible world for them to be happy. But the truth is, parents do that, not because they love the child, but because they can't stand to empathize and endure the pain their child feels, so they remove it. It is not altruistic, it is crippling.

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