7 Tips for Setting Boundaries with Emotionally Immature Parents Emotional maturity is having the ability to manage your emotions. It's understanding them. It's being self-aware of your emotions. It's being able to recognize and share your feelings appropriately. It's the ability to form and sustain healthy relationships, hold yourself accountable, and engage in healthy conflict. Being emotionally mature is a skill everyone should possess because it produces quality relationships. Building and sustaining quality relationships is taught and learned by the first teachers in a person's life: their parents. Parents are a child's first teacher. They are the first people children meet. They provide encouragement, guidance, and support in many ways for many reasons. In short, parents are essential to the well-being of a child's life. Many children and adults look to their parents for guidance in various areas of their lives because they are the trusted individuals who shaped and molded them into the people/person they are. They are expected to nurture children from the time they are small and when they transition into adulthood.While it is an automatic expectation of parents, or parental figures, to nurture their children maturely, the reality is that many parents have developed emotionally immature relationships with their children. Emotional immaturity is defined as the tendency to express emotions without restraint. It is having limited insight on how their actions and reactions affect others. It is lacking effective communication, demanding attention, avoiding responsibility, and failing to hold oneself accountable for their actions. It often stems from untreated trauma, an unsupported mental health condition, growing up with insecure attachments, and so on. Emotional immaturity can be attached to suppressed experiences that may manifest through various behaviors. As a result of these unhealthy behaviors, toxic relationships develop between parents and their child/ren. For believers, the Bible makes it clear that we are to honor our mother and father as it demonstrates our love for Christ. It teaches respect for authority, and it honors God. So then, for believers and non-believers who have emotionally immature parents, how do they honor their parents? By setting clear boundaries for everyone to honor. If you don't know how to set boundaries with emotionally immature parents, take a look at the following list.Photo credit: ©GettyImages/jeffbergen
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