Angry words Quote by Henry Cloud

“Growth in setting emotional boundaries must always be at a rate that takes into account your past injuries. Otherwise, you could fail massively before…

— Henry Cloud

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn…

— Michael Sheen

Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.

— Kathleen Dowling Singh

“Attacking family members is all too typical of peer-oriented children, leaving parents and siblings wounded. In most cases, the attacks will not be physical,…

— Gabor Maté

“Abuse can take many forms. It always involves a boundary violation, although every boundary violation is not necessarily abuse.”

— Adelyn Birch

“To develop strong ego boundaries, children need parents with strong boundaries. No shame-based parent has these. Toxic shame greatly damages our boundaries. Without strong…

— John Bradshaw

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

— Joseph Addison

“How easily a parent’s motive could be misconstrued by an injured child.”

— Susan Vreeland

“If, for example, it is the weak, defenceless, vulnerable part of the self which cannot be tolerated, than this will tend to be split…

— Ved P. Varma

“The Bible addresses two distinct reactions to hostility in parents: Fathers are told not to “embitter [their] children, or they will become discouraged” (Col.…

— Henry Cloud

“Mutual defensiveness moves parents and children away from intersubjective experience and joint influence and into a desire to gain control of the situation. To”

— Daniel A. Hughes

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the…

— Alexander Sutherland Neill