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11 Things Loving Parents Can Say to Heal Old Wounds | Mother Wound Project
All parents make mistakes, but few parents are willing to be accountable and apologize when they mess up. This is a big problem for parents today because accountability as a parent is sometimes the difference between having a relationship with one’s adult children and becoming estranged. If you’re already an estranged parent, don’t think of yourself as a “rejected parent.” Instead, the single best thing you can do is start listening to and learning from other estranged adult children. It won’t be comfortable—facing our mistakes never is—but it’s a necessary step if you want any hope of reconciliation or of making things right with your child. Help is available. Click through to find free resources and knowledgeable support.
Things Estranged Parents Haven’t Bothered to Try | Mother Wound Project
“We tried everything!” shout the estranged parents in their echo chambers on forums like RejectedParents.Net and YouTube channels like Families Divided TV. Apparently, “trying everything” per estranged parent logic includes refusing to hold yourself accountable for your role in the estrangement, feeling inordinately sorry for yourself, playing the victim, doing everything you possibly can to discredit your adult child, and calling adults who go no-contact with parents as a result of abuse names like “brats” and “assholes.” Shall we get out the tiny violins?
Things parents who reconcile with their kids do differently
If you’re an estranged parent who truly wants to reconcile with your adult child (who BTW does not owe you another chance), something you can do right now is stop looking to other estranged parents who haven’t managed to clean up the messes they made with their own kids for solutions and start listening to the voices of estranged adult children. What they can teach you is invaluable. You just need to be willing to listen.
Ways to explain estrangement from grandparents to children
It’s past time we raise our standards for parents. Parents of adult children these days have gotten really ahead of themselves up there on their counterfeit pedestals. It’s always the parents who think of themselves as more important, more human even, than their children when those pedestals come crumbling down. Are these so-called “rejected parents” being “abused” by their adult children or are they just sad over losing the unfair power they never should have had?
Courtney Burg on Instagram: “Yesterday I went on my stories to discuss the topic of honoring + respecting parents from a biblical stand point, and how boundaries come…”