Jada Pinkett Smith admitted on her popular Facebook Watch talk show, “Red Table Talk,” that she used shame as a parenting tool on her daughter, Willow Smith. Monday’s episode featured Brene Brown, a best-selling author and research professor at the University of Houston who has studied vulnerability, courage, shame, fear, self-doubt, and empathy.
Brown explained how shame is correlated with violence, suicide, bullying, and oppression and it can be damaging when parents use it.
It’s called the “Master emotion” in her field, she explained. “For children, shame is the threat of being unlovable” and to be unloved means you can die.
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