Posted by deirdrehbrt on July 18, 2004, at 16:57:37
In reply to lovely...sign me up for that parent next lifetime (nm), posted by Jai Narayan on July 18, 2004, at 11:01:51
Me too.
What I wrote is the parent that I want to be for my children. It is NOT the sort of parent I had growing up, and, I expect it may not be the parent that many of us on this board had.
If I can't have had those parents, then I hope that I learned much from the ones I did have, by way of my pain. There were many hard lessons, but I'm determined not to hurt my kids the way I was hurt.
So, maybe that bit of prose is an idealization, but at least it's something to shoot for.Dee.
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