How easily can a parent psychologically damage their child
Bringing a person into the world, teaching them wrong from right, and equipping them with the skills to live a happy life make parenting an extremely challenging and daunting job.
It’s no wonder, then, that mothers and fathers can obsess over the minute details of their parenting skills, while simultaneously trying to care for a child’s basic needs.
A thread on the question and answer website Quora laid bare the fear surrounding this issue, as one user asked: “What is the most psychologically damaging thing you can say to a child?”
Members of the website advised each what not to tell children: drawing from their own experiences and anecdotal evidence.
One woman wrote that her mother was sometimes “like a volcano” when she became angry, and that her verbal attacks started w...