When a Parent Loves a Child... Image by Karen Nadine - Pixabay  When a parent loves a child... They support, Advise, Praise, And guide. When a parent loves a child… They speak with wisdom’s grace, They lift them when they fall, They make home a safe embrace They offer truth, not shadows— Correction wrapped in care, A steady voice, a warming light That tells the child, “I’m there.” When a parent loves a child… They do not connive against them, They do not lie, Or keep secrets, They do not steal from them. When a parent loves a child… They do not strike, nor shame, They do not degrade with names, Or wound with touch or blame. When a parent loves a child... They never turn the sacred Into something to endure. They do not place their child In fear they must obscure. If a parent… Lies, Humiliates, Steals, Connives, And cuts them off from kin and kindness— That’s not love. That’s just hatred in disguise. And that child , Grown but aching still, Will forever s...