I’ll repeat what I posted on HCR’s substack. It fits. “During my 20 years of working at all levels of public high schools, I met many women (mothers) who never should have been allowed near young children. Every year on Mother’s Day, I think of these women and how most can do great harm to their offspring. Then there are those who give m…
I’ll repeat what I posted on HCR’s substack. It fits. “During my 20 years of working at all levels of public high schools, I met many women (mothers) who never should have been allowed near young children. Every year on Mother’s Day, I think of these women and how most can do great harm to their offspring. Then there are those who give motherly love to needy, damaged little souls and to those they meet by “chance and affinity.” Thank you for highlighting those who care and guide without an agenda.”
I have met a man who is the youngest of eight and was the “identified problem.” At the end of his mother’s life, she admitted that she had never liked him and probably should have treated him better. That is still painful for him to say. As he told me, he is the only person to have been a therapist at the psychiatric hospital where he was later a patient. Generational?? Always…
Years ago, I was a foster parent for a young troubled guy in high school. He was/is a Borderline PD. It was a roller coaster ride that I don’t have the words to describe. You are truly a survivor…
I’ll repeat what I posted on HCR’s substack. It fits. “During my 20 years of working at all levels of public high schools, I met many women (mothers) who never should have been allowed near young children. Every year on Mother’s Day, I think of these women and how most can do great harm to their offspring. Then there are those who give motherly love to needy, damaged little souls and to those they meet by “chance and affinity.” Thank you for highlighting those who care and guide without an agenda.”
I have met a man who is the youngest of eight and was the “identified problem.” At the end of his mother’s life, she admitted that she had never liked him and probably should have treated him better. That is still painful for him to say. As he told me, he is the only person to have been a therapist at the psychiatric hospital where he was later a patient. Generational?? Always…
Years ago, I was a foster parent for a young troubled guy in high school. He was/is a Borderline PD. It was a roller coaster ride that I don’t have the words to describe. You are truly a survivor…
"Identified problem." That was me. Told I was "the family black sheep" to my face.