...despite what my daughters father said to me: "You will never amount to anything..."
I wonder, do they teach that in some mean and nasty school? It is such an oft said phrase. And just when you feel like you have amounted to nothing, you are expected to go out and make it alone. What a bitch.
I wonder, do they teach that in some mean and nasty school? It is such an oft said phrase. And just when you feel like you have amounted to nothing, you are expected to go out and make it alone. What a bitch.
posted by Meg Kelso | 3:40 PM
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You know, the bad father thing isn't an excuse, it truly is the reasoning behind some of it. Not because you can blame it on the last father...just because fathers in general are so important to the development of some aspect of manhood. If they are absent or just plain jerks, the kid learns either nothing, in which case he gets his role model from Lord knows where or from the jerk father who teaches him how to act like that. Yes, bad Dads have produced wonderful kids and vice versa. You can't argue that the prisons are 90% full of people who were raised without father figures in their lives. Some people, like Guy, are smart enough to look around, take everything in and form opinions and values. Far too many of us have to do that. It can be difficult while the society itself is changing so rapidly. Oh well.
Meg
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