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Q: <\/b><\/i>Is it disruptive to a child\u2019s emotional\/mental health to have a parent who yells, often at top volume, as a frequent behavior-management strategy? I\u2019m the grandmother in this scenario and my son-in-law, from a different culture, equates establishing authority with yelling. I never yelled at my two children, and as a middle school teacher, I found it more effective not to raise my voice. I find it tough to be around the yelling \u2014 it squashes my soul. I can\u2019t imagine the kids, ages 6, 3 and 6 months, enjoy it either. It does not seem to have any effect on their behavior; they continue with whatever he is yelling at them to stop. So, to return to my initial question: How will being raised in this type of environment impact these children? My daughter is not a yeller and has asked him to control this tendency, but to no avail.<\/i><\/p>\n

A: <\/b>Hello, thank you for writing in. With the exception of a couple of amazingly patient cultures (look into how the Inuit do it), parents everywhere lose their patience and yell at their children. In my personal and professional experience, there is a direct correlation between the amount of support a parent has and the yelling in the house (more support = less yelling). There are also important cultural forces at play here. Whether it is as small as your own family culture or as big as an entire culture (your country), the volume of parenting voices varies from human to human.<\/p>\n

You have an essential question for me: Is it disruptive to a child\u2019s emotional\/mental health to have a parent who yells? Allow me to answer it with a bit more context, because I like to see these issues in terms of effectiveness vs. ineffectiveness.<\/p>\n

To begin, every human is born with an alarm system. As mammals, this alarm is meant to keep us alive, alert us to danger and, above all, keep us emotionally and physically safe. When a child starts to toddle toward the street and we scream, \u201cJustin!\u201d in a panicked voice, our child\u2019s alarm system is activated, they stop and look up at us. Some children may instinctively run toward us, some may freeze and some may startle and cry. In any case, the alarm system has done its job. Your child is safe.<\/p>\n

As parents, we sometimes push on this alarm button a little too much. If you have ever told a young child, \u201cIf you don\u2019t come with me, I am leaving you in this park \u2026 alone,\u201d causing the child to panic and run to you, you have seen the power of alarm in humans. And it is effective! The child, fearing separation above all things, will run to your side. We have panicked the child into coming with us, and they do. But over time (a short time), the child will stop responding to this panic. You will begin to see them drag their feet or completely ignore you, and now you are really out of luck. You have exhausted the alarm lever \u2014 what threats do you have left? No technology? No treats? There is nothing more […]<\/p>\n

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