This post continues a three-part series exploring how the differentiation process for children clashes with the parenting style of emotionally immature parents. We are looking at three key categories from Lindsay C. Gibson’s book Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents. Last week we looked at how EIPs (emotionally immature parents) are immovable. This week we take a look at their competitiveness.
The most tragic thing about being raised by an EIP is that what they need compromises what you need. Their underdeveloped relationship with personal power plagues their parenting style and thus undermines the development of their children’s agency. Burt and McGinnis in their book The Myth of Good Christian Parenting: How False Promises Betrayed a Generation of Evangelical Families shed light on how well-intending parents become entwined in power struggles with their children.
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