#fear-based-parenting

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Parenting
fromSilicon Canals
1 day ago

My mother was the kindest teacher in her school and the strictest parent in our house - and the gap between the woman her students adored and the woman who raised me is a distance I've been trying to measure my entire adult life - Silicon Canals

A parent's harsh home standards often stem from fear and overcompensation for their own childhood experiences, creating a contradiction between their professional compassion and personal strictness.
fromBusiness Insider
7 months ago

My grandparents raised me and parented with fear. I tried to do things differently, but the result was the same.

My grandparents raised me, and they weren't around much. I was often without adult supervision, and in an effort to protect me, they injected a healthy dose of fear into their parenting.
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