What If One of My Children Is Like Me?
What If One of My Children Is Like Me? I am honestly a little scared as I write this. One of the reasons I have always been so protective of my children's privacy is because I know what the internet can be like. People can be wonderful, supportive, and kind—but people can also be cruel. They can take pieces of someone's life, misunderstand them, judge them, or use information in ways the person never intended. That is one reason I have always been very careful about what I put online. And there is another reason. We try to protect the children from the domestic discipline side of our marriage. Hubby and I have intentionally kept that part of our relationship between us. I don't want our children growing up feeling that this is something they are supposed to do because Mom and Dad do it. I don't want to influence their ideas about what their own marriages should look like. There was one night, though, when that privacy was accidentally broken. Our son was about thirteen,...