A good duck

Having said all that, the very worst thing that a parent can do to a child is give them cause to believe that they are not loved.

Many parents realise pretty quickly that they can’t create in a child the person that they themselves dreamed they could be.

Kids are who they are. Formed with whatever defines them from the soup of biochemistry.

In truth not many parents get this, only a few. The power of marketing overcomes many of the feeble minded.

What parents can do, by making their love conditional or, worse still, absent, is to create a tumour in the emotional centre of a child.

I suspect that these issues are multi-generational, passed on and on by folks unable to break the mould.

It’s been my privilege to know quite a few people that have taken it upon themselves to be the generational mould breakers.

Their lives aren’t easy but their legacy to the following generations is a testament to their strength and courage.