That was great, Susan! So many of us need to learn that we have our own choices to make and we are responsible for those choices. Once we become adults, we have the freedom to make those choices.

We may have had bad experiences in the past, but we can discard them and find better ways of doing things.

So many times I remember saying to myself "When I grow up and have my own kids, I'm not going to do/say that to them!"