7. How Does Authoritarian Parenting Affect A Child?
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Parenting styles in different cultures.
Rita Pira grew up in a family from a Middle Eastern background with strict cultural rules and boundaries. Attending a regular local school in Chicago, Rita found it difficult to fit in when she was unable to socialise and enjoy the freedom other kids did. Making friends was hard and Rita soon found herself being brutally bullied on a daily basis. Rita's parents had very strict ideas around what was acceptable based on their Assyrian culture and this included what Rita should wear, how she should behave, that she should get married and have children as soon as possible and to ensure her husband was also Assyrian. This is Rita's story of what childhood was like in a suffocating environment and how she has managed to break free and live the life she has always dreamed of. You can find Rita on instagram https://www.instagram.com/rawveganrita/ on apple podcasts shorturl.at/sNPQ2 and spotify shorturl.at/fqE18
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| 0:00.0 | This is where I learned my people pleasing. |
| 0:01.8 | This is where I learned my, put myself last. |
| 0:04.8 | This is where I learned fear of judgment |
| 0:06.7 | because, you know, you have to be a certain way |
| 0:09.2 | and you're not supposed to move out of the house |
| 0:11.9 | until you're married. |
| 0:13.1 | You're not even supposed to have a boyfriend. |
| 0:14.7 | You're just supposed to get married, you know? |
| 0:16.3 | And you don't have kids until you're married, |
| 0:18.5 | like all of these old school traditional, you know, |
| 0:21.4 | cultural rules that we had to abide by. |
| 0:25.9 | And I broke those rules at 17. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to how my parents raised me, I'm Dawn Chitty. |
| 0:38.7 | When we are born, we arrive here as pure and perfect souls. |
| 0:43.8 | And the direction our life takes from that moment |
| 0:47.0 | is deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives. |
| 0:51.5 | And what our parents bring to our lives |
| 0:53.8 | is deeply connected to what their parents brought to their lives. |
| 0:58.5 | And that's the cycle of families. |
| 1:01.6 | I have always craved connection with real and raw stories |
| 1:06.5 | to understand what makes you you, |
| 1:09.9 | what makes you the absolutely unique human that you are. |
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