Patching Emotional Hurts
Fictional story with a parenting moral.26 total reviews
Comment from Dean Kuch
You are absolutely correct, Patricia. We should love our children unconditionally, and only admonish their behavior if it is in some way detrimental to their health, like taking illegal drugs or drinking alcohol while still underage, or it threatens their future in some way. If they get mixed up with the wrong sorts of crowd and we ignore it, the effects on the family unit as a whole can be devastating. RAP music of a graphic and vulgar nature (which is 99.5% of RAP music these days) is absolutely forbidden in my home. And all my my kids and their friends are well aware of it! So, there are some areas where we, as caring parents, are to draw a distinctive line in the sand and never deviate from. But boys playing with toys traditionally thought of as 'girl's toys", or vice-veresa, should not be one of them.
~Dean
reply by the author on 21-May-2015
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You are absolutely correct, Patricia. We should love our children unconditionally, and only admonish their behavior if it is in some way detrimental to their health, like taking illegal drugs or drinking alcohol while still underage, or it threatens their future in some way. If they get mixed up with the wrong sorts of crowd and we ignore it, the effects on the family unit as a whole can be devastating. RAP music of a graphic and vulgar nature (which is 99.5% of RAP music these days) is absolutely forbidden in my home. And all my my kids and their friends are well aware of it! So, there are some areas where we, as caring parents, are to draw a distinctive line in the sand and never deviate from. But boys playing with toys traditionally thought of as 'girl's toys", or vice-veresa, should not be one of them.
~Dean
Comment Written 21-May-2015
reply by the author on 21-May-2015
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Thanks Dean for the thoughtful review. I have raised my kids and we allowed the girls to play with boys toys as well as girl toys. They grew up to be very fine feminine examples.
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Of course they did, Patricia. I see no harm in it whatsoever. Kids will be kids. ~Dean
Comment from MizKat
Hi Patricia,
Your story is well written and very interesting to read. It's not good for a parent to cut down their child, like my dad always did to me. He wasn't very pleased to have me because he had wanted a son.
Kat
reply by the author on 21-May-2015
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Hi Patricia,
Your story is well written and very interesting to read. It's not good for a parent to cut down their child, like my dad always did to me. He wasn't very pleased to have me because he had wanted a son.
Kat
Comment Written 21-May-2015
reply by the author on 21-May-2015
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Thanks Kat for the review. My mother often said to me that she didn't want any kids after the first two, and I was the 7th born of 10, so think of how I felt.
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Wow, you're from a large family. It was your mom who treated you badly and my dad who treated me that way.
Comment from flylikeaneagle
Patricia: Very good awareness of depression and being alone. Feelings go inside and begin to harm the person. Where was the joy and happiness? The mother didn't care. Words can wound and cause dis-ease. Don't we want the guys to care about their wives and spend time together? Great message! flylikeaneagle
reply by the author on 21-May-2015
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Patricia: Very good awareness of depression and being alone. Feelings go inside and begin to harm the person. Where was the joy and happiness? The mother didn't care. Words can wound and cause dis-ease. Don't we want the guys to care about their wives and spend time together? Great message! flylikeaneagle
Comment Written 21-May-2015
reply by the author on 21-May-2015
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Thanks for the thoughtful review.
Comment from Jacqueline M Franklin
Hi, Pat....
I'm so glad this is a work of fiction. You made up your great grandson so well that I believed it!
Great message in this story for sure. You did an excellent job getting the point across.
Cheers & Blessings
Keep Smilin'... Jax (*:*)
reply by the author on 21-May-2015
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Hi, Pat....
I'm so glad this is a work of fiction. You made up your great grandson so well that I believed it!
Great message in this story for sure. You did an excellent job getting the point across.
Cheers & Blessings
Keep Smilin'... Jax (*:*)
Comment Written 21-May-2015
reply by the author on 21-May-2015
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Thanks for the nice review. I am glad you liked it. I had written something similar to this years ago, but could not locate it so wrote it again.
Comment from royowen
What a handsome boy he is Patricia. I concur completely with your article. Now both my daughters have told us they loved their childhood, and of course work to the end of allowing their children to live out their childhood as well! Sometimes we place burdons on children they simply cannot bear. I think the modern expectations of children are creating too much pressure, youth suicides are way too high! Let them grow up naturally with a loving, nurturing and with disciplined boundaries! Great article, well written, articulate and easy reading, well done, my friend, blessings, Roy.
reply by the author on 21-May-2015
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What a handsome boy he is Patricia. I concur completely with your article. Now both my daughters have told us they loved their childhood, and of course work to the end of allowing their children to live out their childhood as well! Sometimes we place burdons on children they simply cannot bear. I think the modern expectations of children are creating too much pressure, youth suicides are way too high! Let them grow up naturally with a loving, nurturing and with disciplined boundaries! Great article, well written, articulate and easy reading, well done, my friend, blessings, Roy.
Comment Written 21-May-2015
reply by the author on 21-May-2015
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Thanks Roy, for the nice review. I am glad you children had a good life growing up. My girls would say their growing up years were fun, being able to do a lot of different things, they even had hot wheels and a track, football and electric car with a track.
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Half their luck, can I be your Kid?
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Sure you could be my kids, but you had better liked playing with dolls. HA HA!
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My granddaughter makes me do that, so I'm practised.
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Good for you. Grand fathers are good grand fathers when they will do these kind of things. My nephew has two girls and he even allowed his daughters to paint his fingernails, when they were younger. Not that is what I call a cool daddy.
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They are such a blessing,
Comment from rjuselius
this is an important social commentary and a brilliant piece of philosophical literary art! you really hit the nail on this one. children should be let to be children and play whatever their fancy.
thank you for sharing!
blessings!
rebekka x
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reply by the author on 21-May-2015
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this is an important social commentary and a brilliant piece of philosophical literary art! you really hit the nail on this one. children should be let to be children and play whatever their fancy.
thank you for sharing!
blessings!
rebekka x
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Comment Written 21-May-2015
reply by the author on 21-May-2015
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Thanks Rebekka, for the fine review on this important topic. Hugs. Patricia
