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When childhood survival patterns become parenting styles

I spent my whole childhood walking on eggshells around my mother's moods and now I catch my own children doing the same thing around mine.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The hypervigilance we developed to survive difficult parents often resurfaces as the very instability we create for our own children.

Worth thinking about

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