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The article focuses on over-parenting as a source of anxiety. I think it's interesting how much this view has in common with Freud. According to Freud, people
by slibhb 2y ago
The article focuses on over-parenting as a source of anxiety. I think it's interesting how much this view has in common with Freud.
According to Freud, people repress thoughts, memories, and desires. This repression is necessary for people to live in a modern, civilized context. But repression also causes negative emotion, including anxiety. In Freud, parents are key to initiating their children into repression. Over-parenting could lead to overly repressed children, which could in turn cause more anxiety.
- thecrims0nchin 2y agoYour post points out the similarities to freud. I agree it's similar. I also think they are both wrong. If this were true would you expect a child with a stay-at-home mom to have more anxiety/repression than kids with two working parents. Ten minutes Google search shows studies say the opposite or at worst that there is no effect.
- justanotherjoe 2y agoMaybe my google skill is bad, but i found exactly that. It's either no effect, or it has beneficial effect. https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/kids-of-working-moms-grow-into-happy-adults https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/kids-of-working-moms-grow-into-ha... What papers did you have in mind? Also, i think the way this relates back to freud is in the concept of the superego. Which indeed causes anxiety. And it is learned from the parents ego.
- t0bia_s 2y agoNot only overparenting but lack of siblings as well. In big family you learn how interact with others, how share, how care. If you not learn this skills, later in life you struggle.