We unwittingly groom our children to be treated unfairly.
No new parent deliberately does this. No new parent knows what is really ahead for their little bundle of joy. All they see in those first few moments, days and weeks is the beautiful child they have created. All they wish for their child is good and wonderful of course as any loving new parent would.
To be politically incorrect as I am, I will call us good parents and bad parents.
The good parents groom their children to be nice, play fairly, share and the like. The bad parents, through actions, teach their children also, how to use and abuse and so forth. Therefore our children grow up to be those people understandably. The good parent gets frustrated because they've put all their hard work into grooming a good girl or boy, then wonder where they've gone wrong when their child meets up against the opposition and 'apparently' comes off second best.
It's not the good parents fault. They have groomed as they were groomed, or as they see their child should be. I for one say bravo you have made a brilliant individual. However, if I were to write a handbook for new parents it would have quite a few chapters on how to prepare your child for what may lie ahead. For there is no mistake a good new parent makes, except that the world will be kind to their little button.
I am one of those parents. Oh if I could turn back time, but where and how would I start.
If parents had an actual reality view of the future for their child they would prepare them for it. If we weren't so swept up in the first moment love, many wouldn't be realising in later age, hang on I shouldn't put up with being treated this way. As it stands though, the best of us spend away our lives being kind and hospitable to those who clearly don't deserve it. Such is life when that is what you are taught.
I've got a question. What is one plus one? Everyone answers the same way. Two. Why? Because that is what we were taught.....right?
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