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Hurricane Shannon
Age: 41 Zodiac: 
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 Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:35 pm |
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Parents Are People...
WHO... were once children, children who got a fair shake or a bad break from their parents.
WHO... get confused by all the information and misinformation they receive from too many professionals. Professionals who may not take enough time to explain, who may not give parents credit for any intelligence, who may not give parents enough sympathy and understanding. Professionals who condemn parents for being overly harsh, overly indulgent, overly protective, who diagnose parents as "using" children for their own needs, and fail to see...
Parents Are People...
WHO... have their own needs, which may not have been satisfied by their parents, by society, by their environment, by their education.
WHO... really would like to have the best for their children in education, looks, intellect, friends, food, clothing, success.
WHO... feel guilty when they and their children don't have the best; don't "measure up."
WHO... are quite naturally repulsed by ugliness, hyperactivity, dullness, unlovableness, even in their own offspring.
Parents Are People...
WHO... may have to raise a child by themselves without help from a mate, their own parents, friends or society, and then even the school may condemn them and criticize, fail to educate or understand their child or them.
Parents Are People...
WHO... do the best they can with: the knowledge (or lack of it) that they possess; the supports (or lack of them) society furnishes; their own needs satisfied or unsatisfied; frustrations, disappointments. And if they are lucky, yes, lucky, some small successes.
WHO... need empathy, support and encouragement from each other, from the world, their children's teachers, doctors and other human service professionals for they...
DO NOT, by and large, deliberately set out to destroy their most important creations.
SO before you say, "It's the parent's fault," be you parent or professional, stop and think that if you had borne that particular child, or a child under that particular set of circumstances, if you had that parent's backround and current set of circumstances, but for the GRACE OF GOD, might be you.
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