Hey mommas, I just wanna know if I’m alone in this and if not how do you handle this. My husband hates when our little boy gets emotional, he constantly says that boys don’t have emotions and he needs to learn to turn them off. I absolutely hate that he tells him that but he just tells me that I don’t understand and that’s how boys are. Boys aren’t supposed to lead with emotion and cut them off so nothing gets in the way of work. I don’t want to end up raising him into a young man that doesn’t feel anything. I don’t want him to feel ashamed for having feelings, what do I do?
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It sounds like your husband was raised to have this mentality. He probably never felt safe with his emotions as a child. That cycle definitely needs to be broken with your own child. I’m with you on this one. Boys have emotions, too. I would suggest your husband to do some research on this topic, and maybe share some informational videos and more with him.

my boyfriend was raised to suppress his emotions like that, it’s now in his adulthood that he is learning to handle his emotions and he bottles a lot of stuff up, i believe everyone is entitled to feel and have emotions and right now being a kid is when he trusts his parents for guidance, he is better off letting everything out in his youth to know how to handle it when he is older, people cant just turn off their feelings, maybe have him think of the impact long term, the best thing you can do is be there for your kids when they need you
I definitely do think that he was raised like that especially knowing how my father in law is. I know for sure it wasn’t his mother that did that to him. I agree, the cycle needs to be broken with my child. Every time I try to have a conversation with my husband about this he just never wants to listen. It’s like it’s embedded in his brain and that’s the only way. I refuse to raise my child in this manner though, so I will continue to fight for him.

I would have that to there is nothing wrong with emotions you just have to learn to control them not get rid of them. You the gun that emotions are good but that he should control his emotions if he's angry or if he's so hair he wants to be super loud, I say that never I love in an apartment and if my daughter is to Louis the neighbors may complain to the landlord. She can get super loud at home or in the store when she is excited, like su Louis that people state c at us so I'm still teaching her for to use her indoor voice. Obviously you can be louder in a house or at the park. But just teach him to court his emotions but that it is ok to have them. When he gets told enough, not sure how old he is, ten him daddy want bright up to have emotions but that it's important to have. Repressing everyone can lead to being passive aggressive because you're holding in your everyone and denying them and after so much you just explode because you can't hide your everyone forever.

Repressing emotions, not everyone, typo.

Your husband sounds like he had an awful childhood full of shame for being a human and wants the same for his son which is so terrible. I hope my son feels his emotions deeply and fully.
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