Are You Making This DEVASTATING Parenting Mistake?

Parenting mistakes that create emotionally distant children. Well, one way is by punishing children for having emotions. If a child is vulnerable and expresses their feelings to you and you judge it or you tell them they shouldn't feel that way or you dismiss it or you even punish them for it, the child will learn one of two things. Either to stop feeling at all in which case they become actually divorced from their own self. They become fragmented people. They create a schism within their own psyche. Or the second thing could happen is they continue to have feelings and to know what their feelings are and to explore their feelings and share their feelings just not with you. You won't be the person they trust. You'll ask them how you doing and they'll say fine cuz they know you're not safe. And when you the parent are not safe then you the parent cannot provide guidance and your god-given job is to provide guidance. If your child can't be vulnerable with you, then you can't do your