Sentences with phrase «even stern lecturing»

So if the child's «transgression» is followed by punishment — or even stern lecturing that makes the child feel like a bad person, especially if this is a repeated experience — the child will grow up with what Brene Brown, the leading US expert on shame, calls «toxic shame.»

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As 2006 draws to a close, several shows turn that theme of naughty and nice into a stern lecture, even as the artists eat up every moment of degraded pleasure.