10 Ways You May Have Been Emotionally Invalidated as a Child

Key points

Emotional validation helps children feel seen, heard, and understood.

Missing validation in childhood can leave you feeling less valid as an adult.

Emotional invalidation can happen in subtle or active harmful ways.

You can learn to validate your own feelings and build self-trust now

Do you know that children have physical needs? Of course you do! Virtually all parents, and all people, for that matter, understand that children must be fed, clothed, kept warm and sheltered, rested, and exercised. Kids need to have all of these needs met in order to physically survive and thrive.

Most people also realize that children have emotional needs. Children need to be loved. But children’s emotional needs actually go far beyond that.

You, when you were a child, needed much more than