I understand this issue perfectly. In the referenced comic strip, I am Paula on the right and my children are on the left side. What is left out in that strip,

I understand this issue perfectly. In the referenced comic strip, I am Paula on the right and my children are on the left side. What is left out in that strip, is that because of the way I grew up, I am left with a drive to accomplish things that I simply do not see in my own children. The hunger, the drive, the ambition are all from a crappy childhood. The drive is where my success came from, it is what gets me off the floor when life knocks me down. It is the drive that provides the "I refuse to lose" mentality. I don't claim that this drive is all good. A lot of times I think it makes me a little obsessive and crazy in my need to succeed and reduces the number of days I relax.