Escaping the Highly Critical Parent
Were you raised by a highly critical parent? The costs of this childhood are high. Stop paying them and escape from the patterns instead.
Some of us got raised by men and women who had our best interests at heart. Rather than judging their children, yelling at them, making them feel less than — some people got parents who lifted them up and raised them in positivity and acceptance.
And then there are the rest of us…
Many of us were raised by highly critical parents who chose a different way of bringing us up into the world. They didn’t choose to accept us, or to make the burdens of this world easier. No. Some parents choose a different path and choose to judge their children in the harshest of ways, setting them up for major disappointment and pain in adulthood.
Who is the highly critical parent?
Our lives are forever altered when we are raised by a parent who is highly critical and judgemental. It’s one of the worst qualities to have as someone who is ultimately in charge of a child’s development. Children need to know that it’s safe to explore and experiment with the world. They need to test boundaries, but the critical parent makes it impossible to do.
