Breaking the cycle of toxic parenting: 👇🏼 Punishment is designed to make a child feel fearful or lousy about something they’ve done, in order to modify their future behaviors. Punishments include yelling, screaming, speaking aggressively, shaming, blaming, spanking, swatting, and time-outs. Punishments activate a child’s “fight, flight, freeze” response, preventing their brain from thinking, reflecting, communicating and learning the root lesson. Punishments deactivate a child’s pre-frontal cortex inhibiting their control over impulses and emotions and rendering them helpless to make decisions calmly. Punishments cause a child to modify their behavior in order to avoid suffering. Discipline, on the other hand, is designed to lead, guide and teach. It models to a child the behavior you want to see from the child. Discipline shows a child how to properly feel, process & express emotions, sets proper boundaries, enforces consequences that are related, reasonable and respectful, and provides better behavioral solutions for the future. If you’re breaking the cycle too, like, comment & share this post! #cyclebreaker #breakthecycle #breakingthegenerationalcycle #parenting #consciousparenting #respectfulparenting #connectedparenting