Chatting with the clerk in the grocery store yesterday, somehow the topic of being kids and discipline came up. She made a very interesting observation when she said, "I was just thinking the other day, and wondering why I always seemed to think Dad was going to kill me?" I had to laugh because I remember the times as a kid when you had done something you shouldn't have and the first words out of your mouth were "Dad and Mom are going to kill me!" Most kids seem to be under the impression that Dad is more likely to kill them then Mom. Maybe because of his size? 😂 The conversation immediately brought to mind my favorite instance of kids being certain that their parents were going to commit filicide. I should probably give a little bit of back story. I was born quite a while after my siblings so there wasn't a huge age gap between myself and my nephews and nieces. I was viewed as not only an aunt but also kind of an accomplice. Ha ha!
I'm just going to say something about those toxic posts, you know those ones on social media about cutting your ties with negative/toxic people? I know that those are supposed to be positive, maybe even empowering posts. I'm not trying to shame any of the people who share those, but I would like to point out something about them-maybe, just maybe those posts are toxic. It would be nice if we lived in a neat little world where we could just surgically snip out of our lives anything that is negative or that we find hard to deal with. That however is not reality! There is this little thing called obligation. The definition of obligation is an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment. Part of the trouble in our society today is that people don't want to be bothered by obligation, it can be such an unpleasant thing that forces us to put another person before ourselves. Reality is that there are many people who have neg