What have we done to our children!?
- Elysabeth Canfield
- Apr 8, 2022
- 6 min read
I am a mother who is working on becoming emotionally intelligent within myself, but it is only in the last few months that I was made aware of what was going on. As a child I was brought up similar to other children I'm sure. My dad was overprotective and my mom was a regular mom that comforted me when I needed comforting, and not big on discipline. My dad was the discipliner. I thought this was normal at least from what I saw of my friends growing up it was. I didn't realize that there was actual damage being done but not in the way I expected. I expected that the damage that would later show would be due to my dad's way of doing things, don't get me wrong it did play a part but it wasn't the main part. Yes I've had my fair share of trauma as we all have but that was easy to work through compared to what would later come up to be put back together but not back together in the way of bringing back the old me but back together in building a new stronger foundation to stand on. The old had to die, it was dead and broken and it would never be as it was before. What is this that I may be referring to you ask? Well let's dive in then!
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