Freeing Your Child from Self-Criticism and Perfectionism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798716912762)

If it were easy to identify our own self-criticism and prevent passing it on to our children, we'd have already done it. It's deeply troubling to watch our kids judge themselves, or copy their peers because they're not self-confident enough to be themselves-while often not even noticing their own gifts. If your child: -Criticizes themselves or their creations, -Criticizes others, -Becomes easily anxious, -Becomes easily discouraged when trying new activities, -Feels reluctant to try new activities, or-Copies their peers rather than acting on their own desires or gifts, this book will provide you with practices you can start using right away, to help your children of any age begin transforming their self-criticism into self-confidence. Freeing Your Child from Self-Criticism and Perfectionism identifies some of the insidious parenting habits that perpetuate the cycle of self-criticism from generation to generation. It helps you gain insight to how and why it's so hard to change, and offers you practices that will begin to turn your child's self-criticism (and your own) around. Chapter Highlights: ✓ The social and cultural factors that create perfectionism✓ The hallmarks of perfectionism and the beliefs that perpetuate perfectionism✓ A model for understanding how and why the perfectionistic tendencies you (the caregiver) have, will always show up in your child, and always dampen your ability to live your life to your full potential, until you gain some insight to where to make changes.✓ How being disconnected from your feelings relates to developing perfectionistic habits.✓ The instances in which helping your child is truly helpful for him, and when it's crossing a boundary and undermining their confidence and spontaneity.✓ The specific "normal" things we all say in everyday life, that slowly build our children's Inner Critic and lead them to be harshly critical of themselves.✓ How you determine whether requiring obedience serves your child well in his long-term development of self-mastery and resilience, or whether it cultivates feelings of powerlessness and a tendency toward victimhood.✓ The two common behavioural patterns that are huge barriers to being able to use these practices to change your parenting and free yourself and your child from self-criticism.

Author: Colleen Adrian
ISBN-13: 9798716912762
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 03/04/2021
Pages: 90
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d