Taking a break from the listing of "problems with parents". Here is a feedback I received (see link) that I would take into the New Year and beyond.
Parents are humans and will always have their flaws. Author Mitch Albom wrote:
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair." - The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
But I guess the beauty in the imperfection of parenthood is that ultimately, we, as children, learn to break out from the shadow of our parents and take charge of our own destinies. We learn that ultimately, though we cannot control the circumstances we are in, we control our reactions to them. Ideally, that is. Unfortunately some people still choose to live under that shadow and blame their parents for who they are today.
