Parenting is making your childhood relevant to your own children, so they arent afraid to walk outside of your shadow, in the most painfully loving way you know how; re-telling your battle scars without the middle school embellishments while still feeling the sting. Talking to your children as if they truly understand where you were, the smell of the halls and the sounds of those voices, so they wont have to hear them. Your children have their own pendulum of dreams, daily being fostered and crushed in schools across america and theres nothing you can do about it; growing up isnt easy. Letting them decode the world according to the gated community perspective youve given them is a greater disservice than stopping, every once in a while, and telling them how great they truly are. Because, in these terse and restless times, children need to know they are loved; the absence of love is fear. In an honest world, children will see beyond what we fear most and love us anyway, b/c our stories have become a part of their cadences, as they march to be parents themselves. (LV)
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 01:28:47 +0000
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