When Childhood Trauma Affects Parenting: 3 Ideas to Help You
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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When Childhood Trauma Affects Parenting: 3 Ideas to Help You
Parenting a strong-willed child is hard enough. But when you’ve had a traumatic or difficult childhood, those patterns you learned instinctively as a child to protect yourself have a way of rearing their ugly head as an adult. So let’s unwind some of this and begin reconstructing a healthy you.
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| 1:01.4 | It is really hard to raise a strong will child. And when you throw on the fact that many of us had a traumatic childhood, our own experience with trauma from our own parents. |
| 1:12.9 | Man, that just makes it infinitely more difficult. |
| 1:16.2 | So I want to go through that. |
| 1:17.7 | I posted this on Facebook a couple weeks ago, and I thought it was fairly straightforward. |
| 1:23.4 | I said, hey, here's what I want you to do. |
| 1:26.1 | Resign from your job. |
| 1:27.5 | Give yourself a pink slip from this burdensome job you have carried for 30, 40, 50 years, |
| 1:33.0 | the job of trying to make sure everybody is happy and successful. |
| 1:37.2 | It is not my job to make my kids or spouse happy. |
| 1:40.6 | It is not my job to control other people's emotions. |
| 1:42.7 | It is not my job to fix other people's emotions. It is not my job to fix other people. |
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