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When parents and children share the same psychological patterns

My teenage daughter and I both struggle with perfectionism and I can see how my anxiety about her grades and achievements is feeding her own self-criticism, but I don't know how to support her without projecting my own stuff onto the situation.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A parent recognizes they are perpetuating in their child the very pattern they struggle with themselves.

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