Why Parents Compare With Others. But parents need to understand that comparison is not the only driving force to enable kids to perform their best. According to hershberg when parents compare their kids to others they wind up making them feel less than their peers.
In turn kids end up feeling bad about themselves which is a risk factor for a range of negative outcomes down the road such as anxiety depression and substance abuse she says. Do you compare your family to others echoes this sentiment. All of us are different in our own way.
Parenting is not something that you should be comparative about because no two children are exactly the same.
By comparing our child to his siblings or other children we run the risk of losing sight of what makes our child special and unique. Do you compare your family to others echoes this sentiment. A recent post on empowering parents titled the myth of the lucky parent. Even children in the same family can be very different individuals.
