Mommy Loves Your Bullies !!install!! -

RecoveringMess | Category: Parenting, Shame, Truth

Last Tuesday, you cried because three boys called your new backpack "baby trash." You asked me, “Why do they hate me?” mommy loves your bullies

I’m sorry I can’t protect you from everything. I’m sorry I let them scrape up your knees and your pride. I’m sorry that the only way to build a backbone is to break a heart first. A boy who can fall down and get up

A boy who can fall down and get up. A boy who learns that some people are just weather—you don’t beg the storm to stop, you learn to stand in the rain. A boy who will never need his mommy to fight his battles. Because that is the only kind of boy who grows into a man I can trust to be alone in this world. Because that is the only kind of boy