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My small issue with this is kids tend to catastrophize things, you wouldn’t believe the amount of kids who claimed their parents would be “furious” at them, etc, then through follow up found out none of that shit ever happened
Even we adults tend to screw up and personalize things, a kid is 10x worse at that. Sometimes a parent will just express frustration that their kid is choosing to open up to their peers and counselors and not their own mom or dad who cares deeply about them. It’s a combination of hurt and frustration expressed from the parent, but what does the child see? A disappointed, scowling parent. And so the child interprets this as “see, mom is furious at me”
So when a child reports potential psychological harm from a parent finding out about something, I always wonder if it is just another possible misunderstanding
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