But It Happened

Most parents have a fanatical wish to obtain whatever is 'best for their children'. In the process of zealously trying to achieve that goal, however, some of them end up transforming their children into their silent and passive victims. So much so that these children have to go through their adult life trying to overcome, or at least to recover from, the aftermaths of the unspoken traumas of their childhood. Perhaps such children could agree with what Chekhov once wrote : 'When I was a child, I missed my childhood.'