February 17, 2011

Dear Nate,

Mom and Dad worry for you because you are so very hard on yourself ... often down, sullen, sour, pensive, gruff, vexed, gloomy, cynical, surly, dismissive, cross, stormy, solemn, serious, etc. etc.

Mom and Dad have similar personality traits.

And yet - we cannot be hard on you - for being hard on yourself. This only makes matters worse.

This may be Mother Nature's joke on parents everywhere ... perhaps we can learn together how to laugh at it.

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