parenting

Some parents believe that providing food and shelter (sustenance) is enough to earn respect, but this bare minimum can mask a deeper failure to love. When children push back against this faulty reasoning, it’s not rebellion but a reflection of years of emotional starvation—a revenant arrow returning to the one who launched it. Like a business man does not blame his business for its own bankruptcy, a child cannot be blamed for withering under poor nourishment, even if resources were spent. Love is not a luxury—it is the crucial nutrient without which all other efforts are simply diminished in their effectiveness. I’ve witnessed many brilliant, young, and talented individual destroyed not by the world, but by those who claimed to raise them. There is no honor in producing survivors. And often, the parent, having refused to listen, dies alone—convinced they were right.