I got a deeply painful wake call when I asked my little girl about who I married and how it impacted my children from her perspective. Once I was woke to the truth, the song above became my theme to freedom.

“I remember when I was little that my dad used to kind of always criticize my brother for staying at our home, and I never really understood why he was angry. Until one day I was on a phone call with my brother and he told me that the reason he always stayed was because of things my dad used to do to me. Then that reminded me of how he used to yell at me when I was really little and how he would scream at me for the smallest mistakes I made, and my brother was always there to sit with him and just kind of tell him that I was a little girl. Dad would always soften up and say, “Do you want to go to the toy store or do you want to go buy a book?””

“Why did you and your brother keep this from me? Did you think I would not have responded? I NEVER saw or heard about this until now that we are writing this manuscript together. Why didn’t you ever come to your mom?”

Well, I never came to you because I kind of thought it was normal, cause sometimes my friends would get in trouble and their parents would be mad at them. And they might like be really, really angry and kind of have the same facial expression he did. So I thought it was normal.

“Why do you think my son never came to me either?”

And then for my brother, he probably was told that he’d never get to see you or me again if he didn’t stay quiet about it. That’s what I think.

Which of the 3 Parent Aqua Alters was I? Which one are you?

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