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Podcast: This Isn’t Therapy
Episode: Too much, too young: The toll of parentification
Description: This Isn't Therapy... it's the episode about one of the things that robs kids of a care-free childhood: being parentified. When kids are forced to grow up too soon and become adults in childhood, kids can take on adult-like responsibilities and burdens. In this episode, we talk about the difference between healthy responsibility for kids and parentification and talk about the impact of having childhood stolen from us and being burdened before we're developmentally ready.Article: Were you a ‘parentified child’? What happens when children have to behave like adults By Nivida ChandraGot a quan...