Comments on: Advice for the Children of Divorcees http://ominousrabbit.com/2004/04/advice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advice Online News Journal of My Very Small World Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ominous Rabbit http://ominousrabbit.com/2004/04/advice/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Ominous Rabbit Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:05:39 +0000 http://randomcrapgenerator.wordpress.com/2004/04/07/advice/#comment-92 I'm moved and surprised that it affected you so deeply; one never knows what will make someone else stand up and take notice. Of course it was intended as a satire against the self-actualizing, child-empowerment crap that so much of the child-rearing books espouse; that it would hit the mark a little close to the bone came as a complete surprise. But it is a moving reaction none-the-less, and I'm glad to have affected you, though not as I usually like to, in the silly center. Ah well. I’m moved and surprised that it affected you so deeply; one never knows what will make someone else stand up and take notice. Of course it was intended as a satire against the self-actualizing, child-empowerment crap that so much of the child-rearing books espouse; that it would hit the mark a little close to the bone came as a complete surprise.

But it is a moving reaction none-the-less, and I’m glad to have affected you, though not as I usually like to, in the silly center. Ah well.

]]> By: Dad http://ominousrabbit.com/2004/04/advice/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Dad Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:39:45 +0000 http://randomcrapgenerator.wordpress.com/2004/04/07/advice/#comment-89 Hi Q, I'm not sure if I read this before--I think probably not given its date. Anyway, it's heartbreakingly funny--how's that for an oxymoron? I so apologize that the grownups in your infant life were incapable of suspending their own ego-trips long enough to see the impact their actions, or non-actions, or reactions would have on little groogies and oodzies. We were even "civilized" in our partings, and still on good terms. But I still take note of the fact that the years surrounding my own parents' divorce are mostly blanked out of my memory bank, though if ever a marriage needed to be dissolved it was that one! We've created a world that seems increasingly impossible to live in. I'm sorry. Love, Dad Hi Q, I’m not sure if I read this before–I think probably not given its date. Anyway, it’s heartbreakingly funny–how’s that for an oxymoron? I so apologize that the grownups in your infant life were incapable of suspending their own ego-trips long enough to see the impact their actions, or non-actions, or reactions would have on little groogies and oodzies. We were even “civilized” in our partings, and still on good terms. But I still take note of the fact that the years surrounding my own parents’ divorce are mostly blanked out of my memory bank, though if ever a marriage needed to be dissolved it was that one! We’ve created a world that seems increasingly impossible to live in. I’m sorry. Love, Dad

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