House of Zathras

Have you EVER thought that maybe, JUST maybe, your selfish behavior against your ex is affecting your child? That your desire to prove you are the better parent is FORCING your child to chose between two people he loves?

And your desire to show that you are the better and more fun parent by keeping the child home from school if he even sniffs twice is keeping him from learning? Or that your child in all likelihood DOES have a learning disability that can’t be tested because of his excessive absences? The school is technically unable to rule out the absences as a source of the problem…so therefore your child could be falling behind not only because of the absences, but because of an undiagnosed learning disorder. But you have effectively tied our hands in helping your child.

And to the other parent who uses each and every opportunity to tell the child that the first parent is screwing him up…does that make the child hate the other parent? No, you’re making the child hate himself because he will now think he’s screwed up.

Way to go parents. Because you hate and despise each other, you are screwing up a beautiful child who has such potential and creative ability. If you both continue like this, the child won’t be labeled with a learning disability. Nope. He’ll get labeled as ‘EH’. What is ‘EH’? Emotionally Handicapped. Isn’t that a great label for a child?

You’re both pretending you’re trying to do what’s best for your child. All you’re doing is taking cheap shots at each other…but your child is on the receiving end of ALL those poisoned arrows, straight to his heart.

You have pissed me off, parents. Stop using your child to hurt the other parent. I’m only allowed by regulations to do and say certain things. But I wish you could see yourselves through his eyes. You would see a scared little child who only wants to love both his parents without worrying that love for one hurts the other.

Stupid parents. I’m sure you’ll still be pointing fingers at each other if your child grows up to be a dysfunctional adult. But if I run into you then, it will be my opportunity to tell you it’s a shame that his potential was lost because of the both of you. I hope to God that somehow, someway, I won’t have to say that.

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