Parentification
November 2025
When you had to be the grown-up: Understand what happened, how it shows up now, and how to heal.
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When you had to be the grown-up: Understand what happened, how it shows up now, and how to heal.
Use this checklist to help you determine if you were parentified as a child.
These scripts will help you bring up parentification and (hopefully) minimize defensiveness or minimization from the other side.
You might have been parentified — and in this video, Whitney explains what that really means.
When you’re forced to grow up too soon, you learn to survive in ways that most adults never have to.