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\"wisdom-92901_1280\"<\/a>You don’t consider\u00a0yourself too strict. You simply expect a lot from your children. In fact, some people call you a perfectionist. Yes, you are demanding. At times, you do push\u00a0\u00a0because you want things to be right.<\/p>\n

But is there a dark side to high pressure, high performing pushes? Does perfectionism cause relationship problems?<\/p>\n

A study in the Journal of Personality<\/em> provides insight into parents who drive their kids to perfection. In the study, researchers followed 263 seven-year-old grade school children for 5 years. They wanted to assess the impact of a perfectionistic parenting style on their children.<\/p>\n

They found that those children whose parents were rated as intrusive (perfectionistic) by the researchers had children who were were overly critical of themselves. When parents corrected, took over and did for their kids, these behaviors undermined their children’ feelings of being good enough. And those negative feelings of not measuring up translated to depression and anxiety later.<\/p>\n

Perfectionism may produce high functioning people in terms of their skills or talent, but it can also create people who are afraid of making mistakes and then engage in self-blame. Researchers call this “maladaptive perfectionism.” The concern is that this type of perfectionism\u00a0may result in a person’s negative well-being, with self-criticism, symptoms of depression, anxiety and even possible suicide.<\/p>\n

The bottom line then is to encourage children, not pressure them to the point of creating insecurities. So if you tend towards perfectionism, pay attention to how you translate this tendency to others. Are you pushing too much, overcorrecting, not allowing others to learn from their mistakes?\u00a0 Are you contributing to negative well-being by wanting things done right and your way?<\/p>\n

Take a step back. Recalibrate and allow grace. You don’t want to push to the extent that your children or others resent you, even if they become good at what they do.<\/p>\n

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