Kyle Tunnicliff
Bio
I am a South Australian novelist and known to my kids as "like mum but more pushovery."
My debut novel 'Sunscribe" was released in 2016 and the sequel and release of Sunscribe are waiting on a more reputable publisher or platform.
Stories (2/0)
The Right Mother For Me.
It can be a blasphemous thing to speak ill of one's mother, and I do it sparingly and with deference. To garner some understanding, I'll say that my siblings consider me to be my mother's favourite. Whether there is truth to it or not, there are unintended stresses that fall upon the favourite, namely the obligation to achieve, lest you fall into disfavour with both your mother and your siblings. The former for not remunerating the investment of raising you, and the latter for squandering perceived opportunities not afforded to them instead. From my perspective, I wore the 'favourite' badge by default, because I was simply the last child to sour and spurn the comforts of my childhood home. As an adult watching my own children grow, I've become aware that the childhoods of my siblings are a foreign and unrelatable thing, and if in their opinion I was afforded more opportunity then it is their right to consider it so. I saw glimpses of what my siblings counted as childhood as I grew, but being considerably younger I was unaware of the tumult of adolescence at the time, and warmly enjoyed all the attention and affection that was offered. By the time I reached adolescence myself my mother was a more skilled parent and provider and better judge of character, which led to more of what my sister would call 'getting it right,' but as time passed for us all, I came to accept that whether or not there was any favouritism occurring, the perception of it was enough to manifest such an arrangement.
By Kyle Tunnicliff3 years ago in Families
