I Hate You Mom and Dad:
How To Put A Bad Childhood Behind You
And Have A Better Life
A letter
from the author
Dear Friend,
Childhood is the beginning
of the life we are all meant to live. It’s a time
when the mind is absorbing everything it sees and hears,
and learning comes faster and easier than at any other
time in life. Young minds are open to new information
and they are eager to explore and learn. If children are
mistreated, they begin to build resentment and even hatred
for their parents instead of developing healthy minds
and skills.
It's easy to know if
you were abused. But what if your parents just weren't
there for you? A parent who is not interested or involved
in a child’s school work and daily life, but who
provides the basics and loves their child, can still cause
their child to have feelings of low self-esteem and the
inability to develop meaningful relationships as adults.
But only the child can allow those feelings to ruin the
rest of his life.
Maybe it was just one
parent that caused you to have a traumatic childhood.
It only takes one parent to create a difficult and oppressive
childhood. A childhood that can leave scars that makes
children unable to successfully transition into adulthood
and become well-adjusted, happy, productive citizens.
Could This Be You...
- Are you an adult child of one
or more alcoholic parents?
- Were your parents too busy to
spend time with you, either because they were working
all the time or just didn't take the time to bother?
- Was your childhood home broken
by death or divorce?
- Were you physically, sexually,
emotionally, or verbally abused as a child?
You may have been a victim. You may
be an Adult Child of...(fill in the blank) You may have
come from the most dysfunctional family in the universe.
But you don't have to remain the victim. Now you're the
adult and you get to choose how to live your life. You CAN
choose to move on!
No one is saying that your past isn't
powerful. It was and it is. It must be or it wouldn't be
holding you back! But guess what? You don't have to let
your past contaminate your future any longer! You can FREE
YOURSELF from the chains of the past!
It's easy to wallow in self-pity and
it's even easier to blame others for our own failures. While
you may choose to believe that you haven't found love, success,
or happiness because of the way your parents treated you
or because of the way you grew up in general, the truth
is that you haven't found those things because you haven't
moved in the direction of love, success, and happiness!
You're too busy reliving the past!
Your past is what it is. You can't
change it and you don't ever have to like it. Your choices
today are what matters! While you can't change the past,
you can change your present and your future by letting go
of it!
What
happened to you as a child isn't your fault. How you handle
it today is your responsiblity!
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