When teenage boys are told to “grow up” and that men don’t cry, and girls are told they have to look and act a certain way and act like a “lady”. The definition of a “man” and a “woman” are almost entirely socially engineered concepts that get reinforced at a very young age. In other words, we are taught that the core of our natural expression and behaviour is flawed, and that there is something defective about us because of how emotions present themselves within us. Have you ever heard your mom or dad tell you to be a “man” or start acting like a “lady”? What does this do to your sense of adequacy, worthiness, and how does this play a role in the development of our conscience?
Is it possible that there are other deep-rooted belief systems within older generations that have negatively impacted the emotional and mental development of youth?
Keep in mind, the generation of parents who ridicules proper parenting also encourages filling children’s minds with distractions and electronics, pumping drugs into their children when they can’t focus in school, joking about hitting their kids, and spend more time filming their children’s school rehearsal’s with their Ipads than they do actually cheering them on.
The result? Emotional neglect, resulting in the highest rate of youth suicide in the Western world and is the third highest cause of death in people between the ages of 15 and 24. But there is some hope here. Professor Naevaez says the following will help repair and reverse the effects of emotionally neglectful parenting:
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