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We can't just put a bandaid on it. Re-write your family "script" and pass on effective, successful living to your kids. It's up to you.
We are all either children or parents.
Parenting is the most important job you can undertake in your life. You are in charge of shaping the lives
of the individuals you create. Yes, your child is your creation and you have formed your children's basic
belief systems, just as your parents shaped yours. Society (made up of mostly parents) shapes lives as a
whole, a large moving, shifting shape of group consciousness. Each individual adds to this "societal"
consciousness, and shapes our lives as humanity.
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Most or at least many of our so called "problems" or challenges go back to our family of orgin. This is
where we learned how to be a person, how to behave, how we relate to the world, events and people in it. Resentments are a huge factor in families because so much damage has usually been done. Most close family members feel betrayed. This isn't unusual, and it can be remedied with truth and change.
The affect that addictions, whether substance or alternative compulsions, will shape the children you have created. It is an awesome responsiblity that most people take too lightly. People act in incredibly abusive, irresponsible and addictive ways and don't think it affects our children. If that was so, our humanity would not be in the shape it is currently in.
As parents we have to realize that our own actions, thoughts, statements, interaction and beliefs are having an effect on our children, or have had on our children. It is an actual "imprint" that we learned as children from family and society we are dealing with now and our children will deal with tomorrow. We are laying the foundation for our chiildren as adults, helping to form their belief systems and what they believe about themselves. As the biggest single influence on our children, it is our responsibility to "re-write" our family script, so the behavior now stops and does not propagate in your family for generations to come. Where does the imprint change? When will you decide to put different "programming" into the thought process of your family so they can be effective, healthy, successful people who pass on these traits?
We will have forums, info, articles for parents, for adult children of addicts, and for addicts who are parents.
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