One Belief I have
There are two kinds of parents, the realistic and the unrealistic. The realistic parents know that they will, have or are going to do something to screw up their kids lives. Now I am not necessarily talking about shattering their entire world, like physical abuse, but the major embarassment kind of stuff. The unrealistic kind think that kids need to be grateful for everything they have ever done for them. I don't think kids ask to be born, the parents decide that when they have sex even if they don't mean to conceive. You do the deed and that is what comes of it. Another subject there. Any way, I do not understand the unrealistic parents who find out they did something to make their child unstable in some way and can in no way form or fashion even begin to understand or take responsiblity for their actions. Say, I told my daughter McKenzie that I thought her ears were a little big and continued to kid her about them her enitre life. Then when she gets out on her own she is continually doing stuff to hide her ears, goes to the extrememe of having cosmetic surgery that gets botched and is permantly disfigured. (This is just an example here so don't wig out on me) I find out that she did all this because I kidded her about her ears when she was little. I would hope that I could be sorry for that, that I could acknowledge what I had done and appologize. What is wrong with that? What makes us parents beyond that? What makes us so supperior that we never do wrong? Nothing I don't reckon. I do realize and agree that at some point in everyones lives they have to start taking responsibility for thier own actions and choose to let something from the past affect them or not. I also realize that we all have to "get over" something from our past. We have to realize that we are in charge of our actions and attitudes and responses.
I just had that thought and wanted to share it, cause people are stupid sometimes.
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