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When your child sees disappointment you didn't know you were showing

My 16-year-old son asked me if I think he is a disappointment and I said no but he said my face always looks sad when I look at him and I think he might be right.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent confronts the possibility that their unconscious expressions of worry or sadness have been interpreted by their child as personal failure and rejection.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Adolescence and the parent-teen relationship?”

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