“Toxic Parenting” is not a medical term; it is a colloquial, rather a conceptual term. ‘Toxic parent’ refers to those parents who behave badly with their children and keep them in fear, guilt, and obligation constantly. These parents are often self-centered and are often more concerned with their own needs and that is why they find it irritating when they have to take care of their children. They lack patience and yells at their children always and sometimes they even hit their children. Verbal abuse, controlling behaviors, manipulative behavior, lack of proportion, etc. can be regarded as toxic parenting.

However, child psychologists say that this type of bad parenting has various side effects that become manifested soon. Preschool caregivers, as well as parents, should be very much careful about the handling of the children.

In Some Preschools Cerritos CA, caregivers tell that they are very particular about the handling of their children. They maintain the honor of the kids and give importance to their wishes. According to them, you cannot do anything forcefully to children. If you scream at them, in the beginning, your children may get frightened, but later they will get used to it. Do not treat your children as a slave; they will take retaliation in the near future. So, there is no positive result from toxic parenting, besides, it destroys the warm relationship between parents and children.

Experts suggest some negative side effects of bad handling of the children.

If you continuously do ill-treatment to your children, it hampers their personality development. They do not get a chance to enhance their self-esteem.

Continuous screaming, yelling, and ordering your children make them unconfident. This lack of confidence hampers their future development. They become shaky and hesitant in their work and become other’s laughing stock in the future. The manifestation of this toxic parenting becomes vivid when these children start going to their workplace. Lack of confidence, lack of courage, lack of personality make them bad employees.

It has been seen that children who are mishandled too much at their childhood, become a rebel one day. When they become teenager, being a rebel they do just the opposite of what their parents say.

Harsh parenting may cause emotional and behavioral problems to your children. Most of the time they become very aggressive. They cannot follow the teacher’s direction in school and the effect of which fall on their academics. They gradually began to do poor results in school and cannot progress properly.

Kids, who are badly handled by their parents during their childhood, find it difficult to mingle with their peers. Not even they are free to their teachers. They often have poor socialization skills.

The greatest negative aspect of mishandling children is that it causes a rift between parents and the children. They lose faith in their parents. Conflicts start between them.

So to get rid of toxic parenting, listen to your children. Show your love and affection and give adequate time to them.