TL;DR: People who learned from a young age that trying new things is dangerous, and that praise is rare, will tend to stick to only doing what they know works a

TL;DR: People who learned from a young age that trying new things is dangerous, and that praise is rare, will tend to stick to only doing what they know works and jump at any praise they get now. ...well, yeah. The things we experience as kids strongly shapes who we become as adults. My dad was an asshole who constantly made me feel like I knew nothing and did everything wrong (even in the cases when I was right about something and he was wrong). I now have a diagnosed anxiety disorder, which isn't entirely his fault, but the core of all my anxieties is a feeling of being useless/worthless/inept, and I don't think that's a coincidence. Parenting isn't easy, but ffs, if you can't raise your child to be independent, kind, happy, and self-assured, then you shouldn't have a kid.