This is my post for #freewriters 2887 prompt do not despise hosted by @mariannewest
It is hard not to despise when you are told, my children do not do things like your children do, they are not that way. Well, good for you. Not everyone is lucky like that. Their children were raised no differently than mine.
Your children are not perfect, no one is. I do not despise the one who said he would do a job for me for 500 dollars, and then tell someone else he will give them 100 dollars to help him, and when the job was finished, he charged me 600.
I know someone else who thinks their children are perfect. I am told they do no wrong, but money came up missing in their home, and you blamed someone who did not live there and who had not been inside your home. Before the money was missing, the locks were changed, and every window and door was locked, you could not find any place that was broken into. I suggested it was an inside job, and was told "her children are not like mine". I do despise that statement.
I raised my kids to have good values, and I had them in sports to keep them active and teach good sportsmanship. They were in no way spoiled and saw me work for everything they got. Not all of my children are "wayward", but because two of the five are, does this make me a failure as a mother, and give you the right to look down your nose at me, and them?
I have given it a lot of thought, and I do not know what I should or could have done differently, other than not working as much as I had to work. Even with that, I am not sure it would have made a difference.
photo is mine