tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687085525454907856.post8240998435391091025..comments2012-06-10T15:19:07.614-07:00Comments on Motherhood Bytes: Go Forth and Fail MiserablyMotherhoodBytershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04345700917621573324noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687085525454907856.post-9771988390475030192008-05-30T13:03:00.000-07:002008-05-30T13:03:00.000-07:00Parents who have lived their lives experiencing pa...Parents who have lived their lives experiencing pain, disappionment and failure have the cruel and unusual job of trying to allow their own children to experience things that will cause them pain and sorrow. We are driven by a need so deep within us, NOT to see our children hurt. We hold things back from them, protect them and sometimes, we feel it backfires. What are we to do? We are given only a small arsenal to work from, and knowing the anguish of growing up without so much (fathers, family, security and sometimes basic safety), is it any wonder we protect to the point of atrophy? I don't think so. I think to do anything less for our own children, coming from the lives we've come from, would be denying what we truly are. The hard things we had to face growing up ar not things I would readyily want my own children to experience. We walk a hard, long and sometimes lonely road being parents. We do our best, and when the time comes we have to hand it over to our children and let them live their lives. They may feel we have been a grave disappiontment, but we've done all we knew how to do, what we were driven to do. Love them the best we could have. Is it ever enough?The Long Roadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741309371605318642noreply@blogger.com