Whoul E. Chitt
Like many kids, I have a real gripe about the way my parents raised me. They weren’t terrible, but they weren’t great either. In fact, they weren’t even all that good. And while I turned out a pretty good person all in all, there are still some scars leftover from my childhood and no small amount of resentment.
They’re called your formative years because they form the basis of the rest of your life. Everything that happens to you when you’re a child sets the stage, tone, and standard for the proportionately larger part of your life as an adult. And you have very little power over anything that happens to you when you’re a kid. And you can’t change the past.
This pretty much means the parents take the blame for what are perhaps our severest grievances in life. Not entirely fair for them, but then again, you never asked to be born.
If you’re going to have a child, try to fully realize that you’re bringing a new life into this world, not producing an accessory to your own. There isn’t a guidebook for parenting, but you have your own full life to draw upon as a reference when raising a child. Make sure you have lived it as successfully as possible before you decide to bring a new one into this world.
