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Conversations with Teddy is the first of three memoir books of struggling through abuse and the determination to break the cycle of a dysfunctional abusive family.
Conversations with Teddy reveals a child’s need for parental approval. The dysfunctional imprint on the child of a dysfunctional family is seen through the child’s eyes. What a normal person from a functional family sees is different to what a child from a dysfunctional family perceives. Most commonly dysfunctional families are carried from generation to generation. The father’s dysfunctional patterned childhood, as parents pattern life skills, is modeled to his family. Life skills, how to lie, pretending, facades, masks, manipulation, secrecy, are patterned and taught from parental attitudes and behaviour while isolating the family from the outer world.
Patterned by their parents, in particular the father, sibling rivalry is clearly propagated. The eldest child, a product of a dysfunctional family, responds differently to her younger sister as different personalities perceive, interrupt and react accordingly while seeking parental approval. Some of the tools children use to survive in the dysfunctional family include a desire to please, a tendency to rebel, and inclination to become passive or withdrawn, and elective mutism.
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Posted by Shirleymay on 2008-07-07 18:45:33 | Rating: | Views: 73
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