When Your Childhood Wasn't Normal (Using Perspective to Move On) | #105

When parents fall short, the impact can quietly follow us into adulthood—shaping how we see ourselves, our worth, and our relationships. In this Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn, Dawn Super explores how unmet childhood needs don’t have to define your future. By revisiting your story with perspective and understanding, you can release old pain without blame and use what you learned to move forward with clarity, compassion, and self-leadership.

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Sometimes our parents fall short.

This video is for anyone who wishes that their childhood had been different, that their parents made better choices or acted differently or holds some other unfulfilled childhood need.

This is the daily dose of Dawn at dawn, number 105. Videos designed to expand your thinking.

So why do we want to learn this? Well, because if we carry around our past, it can cloud our judgment, affect how we feel about ourselves, and keep us in pain.

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So, how did this come into my awareness? It actually started when I was telling someone my mom's story. Her dad died when she was just a toddler and this was a long time ago and her mother married a man who didn't want to raise another man's child. So she was given to her grandmother and the man and her mom would come have dinner on Sundays and leave my mom there.

So, what did I do about it? So, going back to yesterday's dose, forgiveness versus understanding. If you've had some things in your life that feel unforgivable and you wrestle with that, check out that dose because if you have not found a way to let it go, that might be a good vehicle for you.

So applying that concept to this situation, as a child, I saw a mom who was just too busy for me. She wanted me to be quiet all the time. I never got a bath or a bedtime story or even family dinner that I can remember. And sometimes she didn't get home until it was past my bedtime. And then she'd yell up the stairs for us to stop giggling.

What I saw as an adult looking back at that same exact situation is that the most important thing to my mom was that she kept us all three of us. With very little child support from a father who lived out of state. She was working, sometimes three jobs, taking advantage of classes that her company paid for her to take so that she could get raises. She drove 45 minutes through Buffalo snow. If you know, you know. Often in the dark and came home to three noisy, messy kids who just wanted more from her than she had to give.

That shift in perspective to taking in her full story and her full circumstances, it helped me understand my mom on a level that I never had before. All her sacrifices that seemed like avoidance when I was younger looked like love in the rearview mirror.

Your parents are just people. If they made bad decisions, it's not your fault. Use the wisdom you gained from it to go out and improve on what you learned from them. Make the lesson worth it.

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