Cynthia Wong

So that can kind of grow into something that's bigger than just the issue about parenting.

It becomes something that's actually politically polarizing.

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So if you have an over-controlling tendency, it teaches the child that they can't trust themselves.

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Children are really sensitive.

They absorb emotional tones.

So if you have an over-controlling tendency, it teaches the child that they can't trust themselves.

Perfectionism teaches them that I'm only safe when I'm perfect.

And all this anxiety around the world and the fear that's being spread to parents, that anxiety also spreads to the child because it's teaching the child that the world is unsafe.

So I think one thing to think about is this could be an emotional echo.

This could influence the child such that our kids learn that anxiety is the price of caring almost.

I can speak to it from the vaccine hesitancy point.

When there's a lot of uncertainty in a particular time, let's say during pandemics, during COVID-19, for example, during Ebola, these types of events have sparked historically and even more recently.

This sense of uncertainty and what we tend to see during those times are that conspiracy theories tend to abound a lot more, whether it's microchips in your vaccines or during Ebola.

It was that it was, of course, manufactured in a lab and spread by pharmaceutical organizations.

So what we tend to see over and over is that this uncertainty of the situation, some sort of big event, uncertain event is happening, it drives a lack of control, and then people become a lot more vaccine hesitant because of that.

And parents particularly,

are very driven by these fears because, once again, it's a combination of their parental identity plus all the uncertainty in the environment.