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Charlie Elizabeth Culverhouse

Do you have a critical mum? Mental health experts reveal how it might impact your parenting style and share 3 top tips for ‘breaking the cycle’

Sad mother and her daughter hugging.

Having a critical mother in childhood can have a lasting impact on children as they grow up and even affect how they parent their own kids - here are some of the signs suggesting you have a critical mum and some expert insight on how to deal with it. 

Tonnes of research has shown that today's millennial parents think they're better at parenting than the past generation and changes in parenting approaches and parenting styles have popularised a vastly different type of parenting than that our own parents used. 

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