These are the top or bottom ten moments that shaped my life:
1) “Santa couldn’t afford a bike this year, so shut up; be glad he brought you anything ”
2) “Don’t get out of bed or the Boogie man will get you”
3) “The tooth fairy forgot, I guess.”
4) “Stay away from them niggers, they’ll steal your little sister and eat your dawg”
5) “You’re stupid as hell, son; you know that?”
6) “You take after your fucking mama; a fucking cull.”
7) “Don’t touch nothing in that damn fridge, you ain’t bought none of that shit”
8) “You say yes sir, no sir, yes ma’am, no ma’am or you’ll get your ass beat ’til you cain’t g*d walk”
9) “I’ll kill that g*d dawg anytime I g*d please; I’ll shoot your ass next you keep runnin’ that fuckin’ head!”
10) “If you tell your folks, I’ll kill your dawg and tell ’em yer a queer”
Wow, what terrible things to be said to a child. This kind of stuff should never happen, but I’m not naive enough to think that it doesn’t.
Well, it stopped at me DD. My kids never heard it from me. I may have been a little over mushy, lol!
Now, list all the positive things that have been said to you in your life.
Oh, I will. I have to. Here’s one ” You’re much too handsome for the movies” Lol! Here’s an interesting insight; when a child is told and treated as worthless they never really trust praise. It’s so easy to tear down than raise.
When I was a child, I didn’t trust praise because I knew better that I was not that good or pretty or talented. So, damned if we do, damned if we don’t.
I was starved for it. It was a novelty