{"id":18623,"date":"2025-09-29T17:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/?p=18623"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:16:47","slug":"the-most-harmful-phrase-we-tell-children-dont-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/18623\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Harmful Phrase We Tell Children: \u201cDon\u2019t Cry!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Parents often say \u201cDon\u2019t cry\u201d out of love or in an attempt to encourage strength, but the hidden message can be damaging: \u201cYour feelings are not allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Crying is a natural and healthy way of releasing emotions. When children are stopped from crying, they learn to suppress their feelings and pretend to be strong instead of processing emotions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Allowing children to express sadness or fear, while offering comfort and emotional support, teaches them that emotions are normal, not a weakness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This builds emotional intelligence and resilience, making them stronger in facing life\u2019s challenges later on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents often say \u201cDon\u2019t cry\u201d out of love or in an attempt to encourage strength, but the hidden message can be damaging: \u201cYour feelings are not allowed.\u201d Crying is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18624,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18623\/revisions\/18624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindsforcommunity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}