How Your Adult Attachment Style Shapes Your Parenting with Annette Kussin
In this powerful episode, Dr. Taniesha Burke speaks with Annette Kussin, author of Secure Parent, Secure Child, about how adult attachment styles shape parenting, emotional regulation, and the parent-child relationship.
Annette explains how early childhood attachment continues into adulthood and influences how parents respond to their children’s needs, emotions, behavior, and struggles. The conversation explores secure, anxious/preoccupied, dismissive, and unresolved/disorganized attachment and how each can affect a child’s sense of safety, confidence, school performance, emotional development, and relationships.
This episode also highlights how parents can break generational cycles of insecure attachment through self-awareness, emotional regulation, therapy, repair, and intentional parenting. Annette offers hope for parents who want to become more emotionally available, stop personalizing their child’s behavior, and create a secure base where children can thrive.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What adult attachment is and why it matters in parenting
- How insecure attachment styles show up in everyday parent-child interactions
- The impact of parentification, emotional unavailability, and unresolved trauma
- Why rupture and repair are essential in healthy family relationships
- How parents can move toward earned secure attachment
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