Adult children who feel deeply loved by their parents often heard these 8 simple phrases growing up
Ask adults who grew up feeling deeply loved what they remember being told, and most of them won’t quote a big speech. They’ll quote something
Ask adults who grew up feeling deeply loved what they remember being told, and most of them won’t quote a big speech. They’ll quote something
There’s a particular kind of household where the adult kids actually want to come home. Not as duty. Not as a quarterly obligation. They come
A child who feels safe at home isn’t a child who never has a hard day. It’s a child who knows roughly what to expect
The form on the mother’s lap has ten questions. She has answered them honestly. Her son, on the pediatric scale across the room, is in
There is a photograph in my family album of me sitting in my sister’s classroom. I am four years old. She is a first grader.
My mother didn’t have language for it, but she did it anyway. When I was young and something upset me — not the dramatic upsets,
If you’re a parent, you probably know this feeling. You’re still functioning. You’re still making lunches and answering emails and laughing at the right moments.
I entered a plane with my toddler. Nobody said anything to me. Nobody had to. The slow exhale from the man in 14B, the way
There is a version of this conversation I have had in my head more times than I can count. Someone mentions they are thinking about
Young children can’t talk yet. They can’t walk. They have no idea what their parents do for a living, what they believe about the world,
There’s a specific kind of childhood that doesn’t look like trauma from the outside. In fact, it looks like the opposite. The house was warm.
I came across a video recently called Toxic Parents And The Children They Leave Behind. It wasn’t what I was expecting. It doesn’t talk about