You feel like you want to strangle your child!!!

How often have we read or heard about the parent that has gone off the deep end? They’ve drowned their children, done away with child and the spouse or some such crazy act to cope with ‘the big challenge’. You know what I’m talking about.

The stresses of raising children and trying to maintain a family are crazy making for a lot of people. The root of a lot of this is in what many of us believe what ‘should’ be happening that is not happening. We create unrealistic expectations for ourselves, some delusional, some peer pressure, and go off the deep end when stresses build up and things don’t go our way!

I, for one, thought to myself many times, “If I have to say that one more time, I’ll scream!!!”. Think I did scream a few times… and not in a good way. I couldn’t continue to hang out there… in that space in my head. It would only have escalated into more of the same and on to worse! Reassessment was in order. I’d lost sight of The Better Vision.

Our many and varied issues in life can impair our vision of what’s truly important. The consequences of allowing ourselves to be carried away in the sea of stress and unhappiness are that our children will likely drown in it with us. They will receive and pass on the legacy of a joyless existence, depression and pain. Was this passed to you? Is that what you want? You have the power to change it.

Is your vision impaired?