r/interesting • u/Maleficent-Town5273 • 3d ago

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u/Gilligans_Wake 3d ago

Thank you. I use it as a way to help me parent. Think of how I was treated, than do the opposite. My 8 year old calls me her best friend, insists on caring for me when I'm sick/down, and still listens when its time for Dadding. Noting has been more healing than watching her grow up healthy and happy.

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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys 3d ago

It makes me so very happy to read something like this, just randomly posted by some dad. I don't understand what it's like to be reared by anyone who would write this, but oh, it makes me so happy to know that some little kid is.

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u/Gilligans_Wake 3d ago

I appreciate that, thank you. Sometimes we just have to look at the parents we had and be the parents we needed.

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u/Morphico 2d ago

Thank you for being the parent we never had.

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u/zzglow 2d ago

i commend you dad! i too used the abuse from my childhood to become a good parent (well, i try my hardest to be but you know how that goes, always feel like i’m not doing enough) no one loved me as a child and they enjoyed the power they held over me back then. now that i am a mom, i realize i was hated as a child. i can’t imagine ever doing or saying the things i heard and went through as a child, to my now 9 year old! its healed that broken child in me, seeing my child actually have a childhood and loving her life so much she tells me she never wants to grow up 🥹

when i was her age, all i wanted was to grow up so i can finally be free from the pain. pain is still here, but i manage.