Dear Mistrustful Parent,
I am forced to write this letter on behalf
of your children today because I have seen enough of their suffering and it is
time that you notice it too, before it is too late.
Now, after you read this letter, you may
wonder why your children didn’t tell you all this. Well, just know that’s
because they are scared you’ll become even worse than before or feel that it
won’t make single iota of difference to you which is a much more frightening prospect
if you ask me.
So, coming to you again. This is what your
behaviour normally looks like:
·
You bind your children to
yourself.
·
You confine them to the prison
you so naively call your home.
·
You check on them like a
detective for hire (or you hire one if you have enough money)
·
You go to meet their teachers
even when you’re not called.
·
You create a ruckus in their
office if they are not there.
·
You wait up at night till they
are back home with a shoe, broom or belt in your hand.
·
You call them fifteen times for
every hour they are not home.
·
You investigate all their
friends like the police do to suspected criminals.
·
You follow them to see where
they go.
·
You constantly accuse them of
lying to make sure they never do so.
·
God forbid they are seen with
members of the opposite sex; you go bat shit insane demanding answers.
And then you tell them that they don’t have
a life…
I can understand your need to keep your
children safe from this big bad world and give them a better life by protecting
them from everything that’s out there. Well, what do your children know? They
are so innocent that they will probably go around with the wrong kind of
company and get mixed in matters that they shouldn’t get involved in but what
about the values that you have imparted to them? What about the strength that
you have given them? What about the character that you have built in them?
Doesn't that count for anything?
Do you not trust your own upbringing to
take care of your children? Do you feel that you were an inadequate parent? Do you
feel that your lack of attention towards your children will reflect in their
behaviour later on? Is that way you mistrust them so much; because you mistrust
yourself?
You may or may not know this, but your
children probably feel suffocation, frustration, despair, anger, hopelessness
and loneliness because of what you are doing. Your children are like coiled
springs ready to unwind the moment there is a tiny ray of hope that they can
escape you. In case that they cannot, they try to escape by means of the knife,
rope or bottle.
Is this what you want for your children, a
life of misery and childhood memories only filled with trauma and unmitigated
hatred for you?
I hope not and it is with that hope and a teardrop
that I end this letter to you dear Parent.
Yours in hope,
The Concerned Friend.
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