“The father had placed his young son on top of the
bookcase, and was urging the youngster to jump
down into his arms. The boy hesitated; he was
frightened.
‘Come on, son, jump! I’m here to catch you.’
Still the boy whimpered and hesitated.
‘Now look, I’m your father. I’m telling you to jump.
I’ll catch you.’
Finally, the boy closed his eyes and jumped. The
father didn’t catch him, and he hit the floor with a thud.
He looked up at his father with tears of pain in his eyes.
And the father said, ‘There, that’ll teach you never to
trust anybody!’
Any person who would do such a thing to a child, should
have their child taken away from them. To scar a child like
that is inhumane in my opinion. Who can a child trust if
they can’t trust their parents! I don’t know if this was a
true story or not but I would not be surprised that similar
occurrences have happened.
The story was the opening paragraph of Harry Lorayne’s
eleventh chapter of his book, ‘Secrets of Mind Power’.
Now to go to the rest of the chapter in Harry Lorayne’s
book on ‘Mind Power‘ does seem anti-climatic and unrelated
to that disturbing story. The chapter though is about trusting
people and I can sure see where someone would grow up
trusting no one after that treatment.
Hopefully anyone who had an abusive parent as that
‘father‘ would meet others who could assure that person
that all people aren’t like that ‘father‘. Whether you think so
or not, that is abusive behaviour, a child’s feelings are
very fragile. They remember actions such as those
for the rest of their life.
nice post. thanks.
You are welcome.
Patricia