15/10/2025
â10 Wrong Parenting Styles That Create Brøken Adults
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âMarriage is beautiful, but parenting is one of its greatest assignments. Unfortunately, many adults today are damaged not by demĂłns or destiny, but by the parenting style they were exposed to. As a marriage counselor, Iâve seen husbands and wives still bleeding from childhood, raising their own kids with inherited pain.
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âDear parents, parenting is a ministry. We must be careful not to produce well-fed children with empty souls. Below are 10 parenting styles that may look normal today, yet they produce brøken adults tomorrow.
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â1. The Shouting and Beating Style
âSome parents believe the only language children understand is shouting and slapping. Every little mistake is met with verbal abĂšse. These kids grow up afraid, insecure, and emotionally crippled. They may obey you out of fear, but they will resent you deep inside.
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â2. The Over-Pampering Style
âThis looks like løve, but it destrøys. Children who are never corrected become adults who cannot take responsibility. They grow up thinking the world owes them everything. Tomorrow, their spouse suffers it. Overpampered boys become lazy husbands; overpampered girls become entitled wives.
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â3. The Too-Busy Parenting Style
âBoth parents are pursuing money, ministry, or fame. The children are raised by house-helps, gadgets and cartoons. These kids grow up emotionally detached. They know their parents pay school fees, but they donât feel Løved. Tomorrow, they struggle to løve or trust anyone deeply.
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â4. The Comparison Style
ââWhatâs wrong with you? See your brother!â These words break something inside a child. Comparison breeds jealousy, hatred and low self-esteem. Such children become adults who feel insignificant, who compete instead of connect, all because home trained them to feel inferior.
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â5. The Military Parenting Style
âRigid rules, no affection, no smile, no praise. Only âYes sir, No ma.â The children grow up like soldiers, not sons. They find it hard to receive løve or show emotion later in life, even in marriage. They obey you, but their hearts are lonely.
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â6. The Public Shaming Style
âParents who insult their children in public, calling them names, embarrassing them in front of others. Such children grow up feeling worthless. They become adults who hide, avoid people, or over-perform just to prove they are not useless.
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â7. The Neglect Style
âSome parents are physically present but emotionally absent. They never listen, never notice sorrow in their childâs face, never ask âHow are you really doing?â These children feel unseen. They grow up emotionally dehydrated, always looking for attention from the wrong hands.
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â8. The Hypocritical Style
âParents who teach Bible at home but live another life outside. Or parents who praise God in church but fight like enemies at home. Children see everything! Hypocrisy confuses them. They grow up hating religion, distrusting people, and repeating the same double life.
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â9. The Over-Control Style
âParents who decide everything: school, course, career, who to marry. They suffocate their childâs destiny. That child grows up either rebellious or totally wÊâk. Such adults cannot make decisions, and they blame everybody for how their life turned out.
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â10. The Conditional Løve Style
âParents who only show affection when a child performs well. âYou got Aâs? I løve you. You misbehave? I withdraw love.â This creates adults who are performance-driven. They never feel enough. They end up trying to earn løve from friends, spouse, even from God â because home taught them that you are only Løved when you are perfect.
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âFinal Thoughts
âDear parents, children donât just grow; they are trained. Some of us are still healing from childhood wounds, yet God and love is counting on us to break this evil cycle. Let us raise emotionally whole children. Let us correct with love, discipline with wisdom, listen with our heart, and guide them with prayer and loving parents.
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âA healthy child today becomes a healthy spouse tomorrow.kids dont do what you say they copy what you do.
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âLet us not raise broken adults in the name of âI am the parent.â
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âIf this blessed you, share it with another parent. Letâs heal homes, one family at a time.