you’re raising a child without her biological father, and instead with a man who stepped up to be her father, aka the step dad. he has yet to adopt her, however you two have been married for 2 years. on her 4th birthday, you make her pancakes, tell her happy birthday, and send her to daycare for the day. after all, you still have work. you go to pick your daughter up from daycare… and shes not there. her teachers say a man who claimed to be her father picked her up, and that they believed the man because he looked exactly like lyra. you know that its your ex spouse—aka your daughters biological father—who picked her up, which is illegal and also insane considering this was not priorly talked about. you immediately call the police and go to the father in questions house. something happens in between that is not mentioned, and you eventually find your daughter terrified, barefoot, and covered in blood. you find out that her biological father shot himself with her present. you take her home and are incredibly distressed because you dont know how that is going to affect your daughter moving on.
sometime later, although the timeline is not clear, you talk to your daughter about that night. she has no memory of it and does not recall it ever happening. you think that this is weird, but because of the trauma of the situation and her being so young, you wait and watch. and nothing happens. she continues living her life fine, and even when she does grow into the ages where she may want to speak about that night, she never does. she never brings it up, never has any distress related to it—in fact, birthdays are still a fun and happy event for her. so you decide to just… let the event go and let your daughter go on believing it never happened.
okay. so now that the whole yap is done and its pretty clear now that the story in question is about lyra kane’s 4th birthday and how her parents handled it… this post has no point other than to show lyras parents point of view in this story.
because i saw a person say that lyras parents were not good parents for not telling her… but what would you do in this scenario? what do you do in this scenario?
i think that although there may be a more professional opinion that can be taken on this subject, there is still really no definitive answer. there’s no parenting books on what to do when your 4 year old childs been abducted on her birthday to go get first row tickets to her fathers suicide. like honestly, i cant say they went about the situation wrong, because i myself have no idea how i would have dealt with it 😭😭
buttt what do yall think??