From “You Can Do Anything You Set Your Minds to” to “I Can’t Do ANYTHING Right!”

How fast, the world, changes??? The “metamorphosis” of the parent-child relation is “seen” here!

From “You can do anything you set your minds to”, to “I can’t do ANYTHING right!”, this actually, takes, a WHOLE lot shorter than you can possibly imagine! As parents becomes, more and more demanding, as their young children grow older, remember how the smallest act is deemed as so very cute, like how that not-yet-first-year-old kid of yours, got up off of her/his butt, and stand, then, falls right back down in no more than three seconds’ time? Remember HOW you’d reacted toward that? Did you, SCREAM at your young baby, HEY yo! What are you, STUPID? You can’t even stand up firmly! Or were you, more encouraging to her/him saying, wow, let’s try that again, shall we? You’ll learn it, after a few more practices, after you start to get those muscles going in your small legs!

So, what had changed, as your young children slowly grow up? Other than the physical maturation processes, getting bigger, taller, becoming more mature in the mind? Oh, you’d, LOST your patience in raising your young as the time passes, and now, you’re, demanding that the kid brings home ALL perfect scores on her/his final examinations, and, when s/he didn’t score that perfect score, you’d have that, look of disappointment in your eyes.

The older the children get, the more expectations we’d assigned, unknowingly, onto them, like those first years when they got their licenses, we’d expect them to put that DENT on our bumpers, or get into fender-benders when they go out alone on the road? The changes here, are occurring, in the parents, and NOT the offspring, because, we automatically ASSume (which would make ALL of you, parents, still am NOT one of you here, into ASSholes!!!) that our kids should be more responsible, blah, blah, blah, they should have the minds to do the RIGHT things, without realizing, that hey, they’re still kids, and, kids ARE supposed to make mistakes, because??? Oh yeah, THAT, is how they will L-E-A-R-N!

And, your children are left, with the fading memories of “I can do ANYTHING I set my mind to” from their earlier years, to now, “I can’t do ANYTHING right!” I’m a total failure, a total LOSER, blah, blah, blah, and that puts, MORE than JUST a DAMPER on their personality formation, and, it’s still, ALL on Y-O-U, STUPID (‘cuz that, is what YOU all ARE!!!) P-A-R-E-N-T-S!

And, this is still from a woman who’s NEVER been married (thank G-O-D! Still a figure of EXPRESSION!!!), who’s NEVER had any children (NOT in the biological sense), but I’d still, “raised” my two already DEAD Scottish Terriers based off of the RIGHT kinds of values, and, they were, very BALANCED until they died, that is…………