My Child Development textbook says, “Warm positive parenting lets young people know that they are accepted as competent and worthwhile.” It also says that children whose parents are warm accepting and positive feel especially good about themselves.
I have noticed that it takes a very strong person to not be influenced by how others treat them. Even mature, competent adults with well-established positive self-esteems have a difficult time rising above insults, criticism and disapproval from others.
It’s no wonder tender young children are highly influenced by how they are treated.
Love,
Alison