Journey To A Fresh Start

We need to parent gently! We is all trying to raise CEOs, doctors, successful entrepreneurs, professional athletes etc who are also empathetic and domesticated 🤣. Sometimes these things are mutually exclusive in reality. How does a child reconcile being super competitive with being empathetic and domesticated too 🤔? Anyways, who knows. All I know is these poor children only have 24 hrs in a day of which: 9 hrs minimum should go to sleep, 8 hrs in school, 2 hrs to play, X in transit from one extracurricular activity to another, etc... God help the parent and the child in this new age if raising "Stepford" children.

How do you tell your mom, who you've looked up to and admired all your life that she set you up for abuse with her constant "corrections" aka criticisms? How do you tell your dad, who was mostly distant, with a high expectation to be revered by his children that he had a part to play in this faulty foundation? In 2017 I sat in one of my victims of domestic violence therapy sessions and was shocked when my therapist said these words, "typically people who end up married to narcissists experienced childhood abuse." I  immediately became defensive of my childhood, defending how I preferred the Nigerian way of raising children because the proof is in the pudding i.e. more American children are generally lazy, very disrespectful, many do drugs and crime ending up dead or in jail. By my extrapolation, this quonondrum was due to the lax parenting style enabled by the American system and culture. Fast forward 2019, my parents, now aged, visit America for medical t