Submitted by YPs (not verified) on Mon, 2007-11-12 10:29.
Good to hear that the Father person reconnected with you.
I think all parents have semi-conscious expectations they lay upon their children.. which can clearly become parental mistake. I remember the disappointment that Gramma Madeline felt when she realized that I really didn’t want to go out into the field and forest to hunt and kill animals the same as my father so often did. (I have old pictures of my uncle and my father posing in front of 20 or 30 raccoons they had shot through the night, now all nailed up on the side of a shed, with them posing for the camera, shotguns and bloodhounds by their sides.)
Expectations (often hidden) come with the territory of being a parent… little realizing that kids actually have minds and desires of their own (that they in turn will try to press upon their offspring).
The beat goes on.
connections.. caring.. etc.
Good to hear that the Father person reconnected with you.
I think all parents have semi-conscious expectations they lay upon their children.. which can clearly become parental mistake. I remember the disappointment that Gramma Madeline felt when she realized that I really didn’t want to go out into the field and forest to hunt and kill animals the same as my father so often did. (I have old pictures of my uncle and my father posing in front of 20 or 30 raccoons they had shot through the night, now all nailed up on the side of a shed, with them posing for the camera, shotguns and bloodhounds by their sides.)
Expectations (often hidden) come with the territory of being a parent… little realizing that kids actually have minds and desires of their own (that they in turn will try to press upon their offspring).
The beat goes on.