Break the Cycle: Parenting Strategies That Work | @caroline-cavanagh | Anxiety Specialist

7 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Anxiety specialist Caroline Cavanagh explains how parents often repeat the parenting styles they hated or loved from their own childhood, even when those methods don't work. To break the cycle, she says to reflect on what your parents did, keep what helped, and deliberately change what hurt.

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What can parents do to break the cycle of how they were parented, which might not have been very successful? For example, punishment more than praise. It's a great example because many of us do parent based on how we were parented. We repeat the things that we like and we avoid the things that we didn't like. And if it worked for you, the chances are it will work for someone else. But if you hated it, then the chances are it's going to, or if you felt, I'm just gonna rebel against that. It's likely that you're going to get that same response too. So succinctly, reflect back on how you were parented, repeat the things that you like, and change the things that didn't work for you.