Tough Love Essay

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Does Tough Love really work? A question parents asks themselves every day. Their only nightmare is when that point in time comes in their Childs life when everything changes. “Teenage years” then you start to wonder where I go wrong. Tough love is one of the most common paths parents take with struggling teens. This is the time parents realize enough is enough. What is tough Love? There are several ways that tough love is used in everyday words. Usually, it is used to describe any type of parenting when a child experiences some negative emotions and used a as learning process. This can come from strong parenting skills, such as respected parenting styles, to abusive parenting styles, like humiliation, belittling or physical violence that are used to control the child. Tough love can be a positive approach to parenting where the child learns valuable lessons, but does not have to suffer the harsh abuse because it is not abusive, and keep the pride of the child, without lowering their self-esteem. It could also be useful to have a harsh approach to parenting when the child's self-esteem is damaged, and they are having physical, emotional or even sexual abuse. In that case, tough love becomes nearly meaningless. Rather than making the children feel uncomfortable you have to find the best parenting style of discipline. For some reason, the concept of tough love has been usually criticized as a parent’s excuse to bully their children, in that matter bullying teens could resolve in to using drugs. Some drug treatment programs use the words tough love to describe their approach on helping the children. But some people may take the meaning as cruel, but as a resolute of the program it is successful only by breaking down the motivation of the young person in treatment. “Tough love is an expression used when someone treats another person harshly or sternly with the intent
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