Parenting a child does not come with a manual when they are born, but in most cases our parenting style is learned from our own parents.  The latest topic we covered on the premier episode of Parent Coach Radio was “Toxic Parenting”.   This is a parenting style that reflects where a parent’s negative and destructive behavior harms the child’s sense of self and even the bond of parent and child.

 

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The behaviors include but are not limited to verbal, physical, or sexual abuse.  Many of these parents will ignore emotional needs and only indulge in their own selfish desires. Unfortunately these patterns become repetition and stay consistent into adulthood.  Children and adults take blame for their parent’s aberrant morals and conduct. Their world is surrounded by emotions of guilt and often too many times becomes the legacy in their own parenting styles.  

Sometimes when we are parenting our children it becomes transparent that we learn what we live. It becomes hard to distinguish between our emotional pain and parenting.  During the show a resource we talked about and shared was a book Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life by Susan Forward

If you have sat down as an adult with your parent to confront them on your emotions about their past actions and you hear these answers you are not crazy or alone.                                    

  “How can you do this to me?”                                                            

“It never happened.”

“It was your fault.”

“I said I was sorry what more do you want?”

“We did the best we could.”

“Look what we did for you.”

“How can you do this to me?”

To hear the reasoning of these answers and more about the subject of toxic parenting listen to the audio recording of Parent Coach Radio with Chrissy, Lary and special guest Brigitte Weinberg from My Life Instruction.com

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