Survivor Literacy

Breaking the Cycles that Tried to Break Us

Forms of Symbolic Parenting

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Forms of Symbolic Parenting

  1. Infantilization (“You can’t handle that.”)
  2. Moral lecturing
  3. Behavioral correction
  4. Decision-making without consultation
  5. Over-monitoring
  6. “For your own good” framing
  7. Withholding privileges
  8. Rewarding obedience
  9. Punishing independence
  10. Emotional scolding
  11. Treating disagreement as misbehavior
  12. Setting unilateral rules
  13. Overprotectiveness used as control
  14. Supervising their social interactions
  15. Treating autonomy as dangerous

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