Changing Parent and Child Expectations

Even if we feel that we have made our point, painstakingly making our parents understand the time we felt they did us wrong, we erroneously assume that our twenty-minute discussion will suddenly cure them of behavioural patterns that are in effect from several decades.

An outright bad p...

Social media is a great contributor as to why our expectations to ourselves and towards other people is damaging.

We often tend to compare ourselves with other people online regardless of who they may be. We tend to forget that we compare our worst moments to somebody else's best.

• We feel angry, frustrated or sad with our friends, loved ones and family members because they don’t live up to our expectations.
• If we don’t have any expectations in the first place, we would not judge them accordingly, and their actions or non-actions will not cause emotional rea...