![]() ![]() ![]() Living in an environment where mental health doesn’t exist in the minds of parents can affect the way they behave and think. Parents and their parenting styles are one of those factors because they are what creates the environment that their child grows up in. It’s no question that there are many factors that correlate with poor mental health. Thus leaving a distance between the relationship of the child and their parents. With not having much knowledge, they tend to ignore the topic of mental health, leaving their children with unanswered questions and feeling invalidated. Compared to the generation we are currently living in, they lived in a time where they might not know what mental illnesses are and their effects on a person therefore they might not be aware that their parenting style is negatively affecting their children and their development. ![]() The root of this issue could be that they lived in a generation where they weren’t educated on mental health and the factors that play into it. There could be many reasons as to why these types of parents aren’t involved with mental health. Not having emotional support in a household can make an impact on one’s mental health which leads to negative consequences. Children who live in these types of households will most likely not get the help that they need in order to heal therefore they will suffer in silence. Although the majority of this generation believes that this is true, the older generation believes otherwise or doesn’t believe mental health exists. Most people would say that mental health plays an important role in the well-being of a human being. ![]()
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