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A new study says that moms who are depressed or hostile tend to under- or over-react to their children. How can you counteract these effects in your own parenting?
Being a nurturing mom is tough when you’re under siege, researchers find
The University of Rochester study found that of 153 moms of toddlers around a year and a half in age, the moms with markers of depression had the highest incidence of harsh, hostile or angry parenting behaviours during free play sessions in a lab. Poor moms from high-crime neighbourhoods, by contrast, had underperforming stress responses: they tended not to react to their children at all, ignoring them, or else taking over the play.
We all know you can’t eliminate stress from your life. Even relatively well-off, comfortable parents are stretched, working longer hours for fewer wages than ever to meet high BC mortgage payments and trying to cram in parenting, housekeeping, family time and errands in the few hours left in the week. Add in eldercare, poverty, a hostile neighbourhood or your own depression and you’ve created a toxic parenting mix. So what to do?