To be the father
of two gifted, healthy sons
needs their mother’s love
~
CLP 24/11/2020
Tag Archives: Parents
On Screen
Don’t sit so close t’it
You’ll damage your eyes! said dad
He’d just been smoking
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n.b. Aggressive, domineering father, picking up on his teenage daughter’s posture while reading her mobile as they sat in the queue at the health centre.
The man had been outside for five minutes smoking a cigarette, which he threw into the street.
Draw your own conclusions.
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CLP 17/02/2020
Emotional Blackmail
“I just want my kids to be happy”
So commonly heard
So unthinking said
And missing the point
Of parenthood
And childhood
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“I don’t care what he does, as long as he’s happy”
What the children know of their parents
Who want them just to be happy
Is that they hold the keys
To all the doors
Well before they’re eighteen
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“I’ll do anything for my babies”
Who soon learn that to sulk
Is to take control
Mumnipulate
Dadominate
Power without responsibility
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“I don’t know where we went wrong”
So commonly heard
So unthinking said.
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n.b. Happiness is a derived emotional state that seems to come from a sense of being at ease amongst those you respect and share purpose. Hence the attraction of online gaming and gangs. Happy families it appears to me, do things together, rather than just being an altar for feeding the children’s egotistical pleasures.
NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 20 prompt: Use speech commonly heard.
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CLP 20/04/2019
Voyage des Mots 