Blaming a Child

On today’s episode Nota and Few sum up a conversation initially taking place on the forum and now brought to life on the pod, thanks to the largesse of our newest and first patron, temporaryfeeling. The unpaid janitors analyze and reflect on the themes of children’s aggression, the relation between isolation, insecurity, and stunted development to grandiosity, superiority, and devaluing/cultlike attitudes, and how different solutions in different families to the topic of aggression can yield varying capacities for self defence later in life. Significantly, what happens in the child’s development when you hold them responsible or blame them for their feelings as they are trying to work these issues out for themselves, leading to compensating behaviours and attitudes as they attempt to flee the vulnerable position of being the one who is shamed.    To anyone who’s listening who’d like to be on the pod but think the exposure is a bit too much/don’t like the sound of their own voice, please take this episode as indicative of formats Nota and myself are willing to embrace to help people get their stories out there, and a thanks to temporaryfeeling yet again for suggesting it.