Mommy Loves Your Bullies -

RecoveringMess | Category: Parenting, Shame, Truth

So yes. Mommy loves your bullies. Not for who they are—little monsters in training—but for what they force you to become. mommy loves your bullies

And your bullies? They are survival. They are the raw, feral truth of the playground jungle. They don’t care about your feelings. They don’t care about my organic peanut butter sandwiches. They see your weakness—the same weakness I coddled—and they eat it for breakfast. RecoveringMess | Category: Parenting, Shame, Truth So yes

That spine? I didn’t give it to you. Your bullies did. RecoveringMess | Category: Parenting

Because I love the boy you are becoming. And that boy? He has your bullies to thank.

I need to say something ugly out loud.