Stop teaching your child to hide their emotional needs
By making your life more convenient, you may actually be teaching your child to hide their emotional needs in the future.
by: E.B. Johnson
Our childhood is an important time in which we grow and form into the people we are going to become, inside and out. We watch everything that happens around us and we absorb it; making sense of it with our child’s brain as best we can. Our parents teach us more than how to walk and talk. They also teach us how to recognize and manage things like our emotional states. Have you taught your child healthy ways to cope with their emotions, or are you setting them up for a struggle that will last a lifetime? The answer is more complex than you think
Children see lessons in everything.
The child’s brain sees lessons in everything. Think of it a bit as a computer. In childhood, the human brain is revving up — downloading the content that will form the basis for all the programs we build later in life (think relationships, decision making, etc). We watch as our parents teach us both overt and covert lessons, which follow us through life and inform the type of people we become.
Among these lessons is that of emotional…
