Parental behavior influences children’s emotions
Parents’ behavior directly influences their children’s emotions … how and why?
Parents’ behavior directly affects their children’s behavior . Children are like sponges: they model everything a parent does and incorporate what they see into their own lives. It is important that parents know how to perform the correct examples for their children. Negative examples can be detrimental to a child’s development and can lead to misbehavior … both now and in the future.
If you are a father or mother, you must be aware that your actions are much more powerful than your words. Therefore, you can explain to your children as much as you want … that if afterwards your actions do not match your words, you will generate confusion for your children and they will only copy what they see you do.
Here are some examples of behaviors that you may not realize are influencing your children greatly. For this reason, if after reading all this you think that you are influencing your children in any of these ways, then it is important that you change your behaviors to be a better role model.
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SOCIAL SKILLS
Antisocial children learn their behavior from the examples of their parents. Social skills can be interpreted as everything from the polite basic “please” and “thank you” to speaking in front of crowds. Children model their parents and learn from them … If your children see you hesitate when you talk to a waiter … It will happen to them exactly the same in the future. It is important that you be a good example of strong relationships.
DAILY STRESS
Parents’ reaction to stress affects how a child reacts to stress. If a parent reacts negatively, a child will also learn to react negatively. Also, negative reactions to stress, such as yelling and hitting, can scare a child. Children can learn to shut down and may even think they are the cause of stress … feeling unnecessarily guilty. If stress is managed in a positive way, it helps children see that their parents’ love for them never changes, even when they are stressed.
MAINTAIN POSITIVE DISCIPLINE
The way a parent disciplines greatly affects the behavior of their children. When a parent chooses to use physical punishment, such as slapping the butt, it does not teach the child how to change their behavior. Children can also react aggressively to physical punishment. When parents choose alternative forms of punishment, such as time-outs, they are helping to calmly modify the child’s misbehavior and then reflect to change that behavior for the better.
COMMON DISCUSSIONS
If the discussion between parents is done fairly and maturely, a child can really benefit from seeing conflicts resolved. Verbal and physical fights are extremely difficult for children. Children can blame themselves for their parents’ fights and they can be traumatic both now and in the future.
Children can develop low self-esteem and can even behave violently towards other children. Dysfunctional families create dysfunctional children. Children often repeat this behavior in future relationships.
CHILD ABUSE DESTROYS CHILDREN
The abuse child causes a variety of anti – social and destructive behaviors. This is because abused children try to cope and understand why they are being abused. Parents who abuse their children can cause their children to be aggressive and violent, experience learning disabilities, and even take drugs or alcohol. Parents who abuse provide the opposite of what a child needs to grow up healthy. Instead, they destroy a child’s inner and outer world.
Dr. Tabriella Perivolaris, Sara's mother and fan of fashion, beauty, motherhood, among others, about the female universe. Since 2018 she has been working as a copywriter, always bringing to her articles a little of her experience and experience as a mother and woman.