Raising Your Own Critic

If you correct your children excessively – especially at their slightest mistakes – they will become conditioned to notice and grow irritated by mistakes of that magnitude in everyone, including, and often most intensely, you.

If you correct mistakes in your children that you also make, but let your own slide with the justification, 'I'm your father,' or 'I'm older,' they will learn that it's not acceptable to make mistakes unless you hold a certain age or role. This teaches them that some positions are subject to persecution, while others hold the power of the persecutor. Consequently, when they grow up, they are likely to give their own children a hard time, while freely repeating those same mistakes without self-reproach.

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