my mom never compliments my sister when she plays cello or piano, only criticizes her (with her self proclaimed little knowledge because of her lack of opportunity to learn an instrument growing up, which i told her we hadn't mentioned and never intended to mention). naturally this will make her feel very terrible abt herself and she just felt very unmotivated to practice every day, which just made the criticism worse. i stood up for her and calmly told my mom but she took it the wrong way and blew up
