Article October 27, 1973 Issue

WHEN YOU THINK YOU DON'T LOVE YOUR PARENTS

Deirde M. Shaw (Written at age 11)

Have you ever been angry with your parents? So much that sometimes you thought they really didn't seem to love you?

Well, not very long ago that is exactly the way I felt. My parents thought I had done something I shouldn't have, and sent me to my room. I sat there thinking some very unpleasant thoughts about them, and I told them off—in my mind.

After a while my mother came in to talk with me. I didn't want to talk with her. but she talked anyway. She told me I was very good, because God made me that way. I just looked at her and thought, "If she thinks I'm so good, why did she send me to my room?" But then she added that sometimes my actions weren't good and that I needed to have the actions match the good that's the real me. She talked some more and told me she loved me and was sure I loved her and my father.

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