When on a campaign of denigration, rather than making statements criticizing the things that you do, your child makes statements that criticize you. Instead of saying, “I don’t like it when you drive so fast,” or “I wish you would make something else for dinner other than pasta,” your child tells you, “I don’t feel safe with you,” or “You never make me food I like.” Furthermore, your child denies having had any positive experiences with you in the past and may go so far as to say, for example, that he was only smiling in those home movies because you made him and he wasn’t having as much fun
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