Parents, You Can Reverse Generations of Emotional Neglect By Doing 3 Small Things [blogs.psychcentral.com]

Alicia Doktor 1/9/184:00 AM

Can well-meaning, loving parents fail their child emotionally? Surprisingly, and unfortunately, the answer is yes.

It is possible for even the most caring and well-intentioned parents to be emotionally neglectful. In fact, the largest subset of emotionally neglectful parents genuinely do love their children and want the best for them. I have encountered so many such parents over the years that I gave them a name: Well-Meaning-But-Neglected-Themselves parents — or WMBNTs.

Those who were raised by emotionally neglectful parents are literally set up to under-respond to their own child’s feelings once they become parents. No matter how well-meaning they are as parents, it becomes not only vital but necessary for them to make a special, conscious effort to attend to the feeling side of life with their own children.

[For more on this story by Jonice Webb PhD, go to https://blogs.psychcentral.com...oing-3-small-things/]

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