If you spend time on parenting sites or follow parenting influencers on Instagram and TikTok, you’ll probably have heard the term ‘cycle-breaker’. But what does it mean, and how can you begin to break with unhelpful parenting strategies you inherited from your parents?
Generational cycle breakers aren’t anything new, according to psychotherapist Heidi Soholt. “Each generation of parents will be influenced by parenting ‘trends’,” says Heidi. “For example, during the Dr Spock era in the 1960s, parents were advised to ditch rigid schedules and harsh disciplining of previous generations for more sensitive practices.”
