Growing Up in the Fold: Toddlerhood & Making Your Own Decisions
Krispin and DL discuss what's important about the toddler years and how growing up under religious authoritarian parenting has life long impacts from this developmental stage. Common impacts are difficulty setting boundaries, living according to others’ expectations and difficulty making your own choices — all key aspects of this developmental period.
This episode is part of a series discussing how religious authoritarian parenting books approached them, what's typical development and what the long-term impacts might be from being raised under religious authoritarian parents (in a high control religion).
TW: Physical abuse, sexual abuse,
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