Day 14 → A hero that has let you down.

Hmm, this is something that I think about a lot. As I was growing up, there was no one better to me than my mother. She was the world to me, the coolest person on the planet, she was beautiful, smart, a hard worker. I wanted to be just like her when I grew up. She worked so many jobs, all at one time to support her family. She could not give us the riches of the world, but she never let us go without a warm hug. She was my rock, she was the best thing to happen to a little kid.

Now however she is so caught up in trying to be a friend to her children, than to parent them. She seemingly gave up parenting my siblings and I when I was around fifteen years of age. As we entered high school, we needed our mom their to push us, to make us get out of bed every morning and insist that we attend school. We needed a mom who drove us around, and taught us how to drive. We needed a mom to talk to, to yell at us for bringing home a bad grade, for going out later than we were supposed to. We needed a mom who was there for us, but she wasnt. 
It hurts to know that my mother has given up on being a parent to her children, and acts like a friend. And we will not even begin to discuss her being a grandparent, because she doesnt do that either.