A grainy home video from 1993 opens a door many parents avoid: the thin line where love and control blur. From that single forced smile, we follow the thread into cognitive dissonance, exploring why we promise ourselves we won’t yell and still end up yelling, and why small justifications feel so necessary when our identity as a “good parent” is on the l…
Breaking the Cycle of Love and Control....
How Cognitive Dissonance and our own childhood plays a role in our parenting.
Oct 22, 2025
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