Children subjected to such parenting need constant reassurance and may rely heavily on peers to assert their self-esteem - a risk factor for developmental difficulties adaptation, including aggression and antisocial behavior (Donnellan et al., 2005). I witness how my sister's harsh and uncaring parenting led to a destructive sense of shame and extremely low self-esteem in Itzel. Our parents tried to counteract this by explicitly contradicting my sister's parenting style, but this sometimes creates a more difficult environment to deal with. For this reason, I do not believe that Itzel has acquired a healthy state of emotional self-efficacy, where she feels in control of her emotional experiences and can express them in healthy ways. For a long time, she struggled to understand the impact of her emotions on her thoughts and behaviors and therefore reacted impulsively when faced with difficult situations. Through various discussions with myself, my mother, and the counselor she was seeing for a while, Itzel slowly recognizes the consequences of her actions and begins to gain