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4 Underrated Parenting Mistakes That Lead to Struggling Adults
Most of our struggles with confidence, self-esteem, and building relationships as adults can be traced back to upbringing.
How you were raised from when you were a kid plays a major role in how you function as an adult.
Unfortunately, many parents do things may appear normal, but they often set the stage for the emotional and psychological struggles people go through later in life.
Here are 4 mistakes I’ve seen most parents make that turn people to struggling adults later on.
1. Invalidating Your Kids' Emotions
It’s often not an accident when some people struggle to show or express their emotions as adults.
In most cases, it’s simply because they’ve learned from experiences since childhood that showing how they truly feel isn’t important. So they hide, dismiss, or downplay their emotions.
When parents constantly talk down on or invalidate their kids’ emotions when they complain about something by saying things like, “Stop being too sensitive” or “It’s not a big deal,” eventually, the kids internalize a key message that their feelings are not important or worthy of attention.
As adults,
