Whats Considered Emotional Abuse???

[Llovely81]

Hi guys, I have a question, when it comes to children what do you guys classify as emotional abuse??? So I have a neighbor who is always telling her son what he's doing wrong. How he's dressed, he's dirty, he looks like a bum or I overheard her telling him that what he did was stupid. I always hear her yelling at him about what he's not doing and how it needs to be done. Once again ( not that am being nosy, I hear from her apartment) I overhear her telling him that he's room is nasty and that he needs to clean his room, I know she hits him, because I overheard it. He had from what I heard put on dirty socks for school and she yells and told him to put on clean socks, then she was heard in the child's room yelling at him about his socks. They stand at the bus stop besides my bedroom window in the morning for school and I overhear her telling him how to act & behave, she never has anything good to say to this kid. Would these thing be considered emotional abuse???

[sandyRoe]

Whatever that behaviour is, it doesn't sound very nurturing

[China Doll]

Possibly. Emotional abuse is the hardest to quantify and generally the whole situation has to be looked at in context. If you are that concerned then ring either the NSPCC or the duty social services line for your area and explain your concerns, they can take it from there.

[ummmm]

I think Llovely might be in the US.

Not sure telling your kid how to behave, to put clean socks on, to not do stupid things, to clean his room..etc is abuse. You also don't hear everything so she could also be telling him how wonderful he is and how proud she is etc..

[B00]

Narrr, is it heck.

She sounds a nag, but having brought up a teen (how old is this kid?) I can fully understand the frustration she's having.

[rockyracoon]

Will she sounds a bit like me a the moment. My 14 year old son seems to be going for gold in the soap dodging olympics so he gets told frequently and loudly (depending on his listening) to bloody wash and change, and clean his room, oh yeah and how he dresses if he wants to step out of the front door with me. That being said though, he knows I'm the proudest mum with all the effort he's putting in at school lately, but I don't have to shout that because he listens.

[Baldric]

Agree with ummmm

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Hi, I am a 31 year old mother of student, I currently reside in Detroit, Michigan.