r/interesting • u/Maleficent-Town5273 • Aug 20 '26

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/latchkeydc Aug 20 '26

I’m so sorry that was your childhood.

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u/Gilligans_Wake Aug 20 '26

Thank you. I use it as a way to help me parent. Think of how I was treated, than do the opposite. My 8 year old calls me her best friend, insists on caring for me when I'm sick/down, and still listens when its time for Dadding. Noting has been more healing than watching her grow up healthy and happy.

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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys Aug 21 '26

It makes me so very happy to read something like this, just randomly posted by some dad. I don't understand what it's like to be reared by anyone who would write this, but oh, it makes me so happy to know that some little kid is.

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u/Gilligans_Wake Aug 21 '26

I appreciate that, thank you. Sometimes we just have to look at the parents we had and be the parents we needed.