Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment?

spencerwi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

No.

I might, if what they did were severe enough, express that what they did is disappointing. But that’s different from branding them with the iron of disappointment-as-identity. Everyone does stuff sometimes that is worse than they aspire to be. The trick is coming back from it, learning and growing and changing.

I remember how it felt the day I asked my mom, after she had smacked me around a bunch and screamed at me for stuff she made up about me, “what did I ever do to you to make you hate me this much?”, and she screamed back “YOU WERE BORN!”

I was 12. No kid should ever feel the hopelessness and abandonment I felt in that moment.

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