How we communicate as parents is a fundamental formative factor in our children’s development, and is passed from generation to generation. If a child learns a negative form of communication, by which it was normal to insult, berate, condemn, and put down, then that child is likely to use this
Monthly Archives: December 2016
Parental verbal abuse creates a feeling of worthlessness in children
Child abuse includes verbal abuse, and considering its potential destructiveness, I am surprised at how little is written about it. Writers in general consider it part of emotional abuse, but I believe that it deserves separate treatment. Joan Arehart-Treichel maintains that parental verbal abuse is extremely detrimental to children. We
Abused children feel worthless and insecure and bring this into adulthood.
I want readers to understand the long and short-term effects of each type of abuse on the child. Physically abused and neglected children develop a sense of worthlessness and insecurity. Ultimately, they feel unlovable. Their instinct is logical, ‘if my parents do not love me, it must be my fault,
look for the indicators of physical abuse
There are indicators of physical abuse, although these injuries may not necessarily be from abuse. These include bruises, and burning, like cigarette burns on hands or feet, rope burns from confinement, dry burns caused by an iron. There may be lacerations and skeletal injuries, such as bone fractures, stiff, swollen
physical abuse is always wrong and can never be condoned.
One factor of great concern is that aggressive adults are the most effective models for aggression, and dependent children the most effective learners. Parents as negative models are the conductors of trans-generational abuse. Ultra strict parents, without realising it, may be laying the foundations of abuse. The underlying tendency for