The Brainwashing Boomerang
Posted on 20. Sep, 2008 by admin in Brainwashing, Exposing the methods
Although direct and firm intervention is always required when dealing with an ex’s attempting to alienate you from your child, always keep this in the back of your head: the concept of the Brainwashing Boomerang.
Brainwashing Boomerang (n) – when a parent’s attempt to alienate their ex from their child or children backfires, and the intended effect is the opposite: The child or children resent the parent who attempted the brainwashing.
You can’t sit back and wait for this effect to take place down the road. It is something that often happens, however, especially in cases where the children have relatively strong and independent minds (ie, less susceptible to mind shaping). This blog doesn’t recommend this passive approach, however, as damage is still done to the child’s psyche.
And even this boomerang effect isn’t desirable, as it simply switches hostility between the two parents… in other words, hostility which shouldn’t be there at all still exists.
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30. May, 2009
[...] This, in turn, turns into the brainwashing boomerang. [...]
satellite p
10. Nov, 2009
my soon to be ex son in law has made my 5 yr old grandbaby PROMISE never to kiss me again. This after I caught said person in the act – breaking into the computer in our house. That was three months ago. Child told me accidentally one day that Daddy had extracted this promise and ‘we can’t break a promise can we?’
The newest is that Daddy has forbidden baby to accompany me alone anywhere – ‘you can go if Mama and Grampy go’ but not alone to the park or any places where we used to have fun.
How do you handle this contemptible behavior. I think this is child abuse at it’s most vile.
Jes
16. Dec, 2009
Well, we as outsiders can only hear your side of the story and therefore cannot make a proper suggestion; can we? I don’t think putting your side out on the net and asking for vindication is the proper course of action. I suggest confronting the dad when the child is not around and attempting to speak like grown-ups and resolve the issue. If a third-party intervention is needed, I suggest using a family therapist who is practiced in dealing with these types issues. For the sake of the child, do not involve or confront the child or confront in front of the child unless you want them to be seriously mentally screwed.