Brake the Cycle

Transparent moment. My son got a little nervous when they put the glasses on him and covered his nose with the laughing gas. I reassured him, it won’t hurt, he calmed down right away. It’s nothing big but it was good to be there.

Here’s the problem. So many kids (including myself) never get that reassurance smh. My dads father passed the year I was born, I have seen my moms dad twice and I don’t have a relationship with my dad other than talking every now and then. I had a terrible example of what it means to be a dad. Never, not once has my dad ever came to any event other than a few basketball games. I was forced to deal with everything alone. Sometimes I get angry thinking about the fact that I have never had any real relationship with any of the men in my family, then I’m the oldest so I don’t even have a big brother to follow. I have to force myself to snap out of it and focus that much more on being the dad I never had for my boys. There’s no way I can allow them to feel this anger of not having any guidance from a man! This is one of personal cycles I had to break.

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