In my 20s, peers spoke a lot about their parents, especially bad parents, but in my 30s, all talk of parents vanished. But then, when we begin to probe our parents, as we finally sit down and ask questions about their lives and they finally answer truthfully, we realize that children do not know their parents either. “I spent fifty years of my life not knowing that my father had no vision in the center of his left eye," Rodrigo writes. Rodrigo illuminates the phases children go though as they watch their parents age. Then children have to make brave decisions about saving their parents from hospitals.

Source: Mint August 15, 2021 15:51 UTC