A child's first bully is rarely found on a playground or in a classroom. It's often at home - in the words, actions, or silence of an unhealed parent. The one who projects their pain instead of processing it. Who shames instead of teaches. Who controls instead of connects. Who demands perfection from a child still learning how to exist. Children don't grow up broken — they grow up carrying the weight of someone else's unhealed wounds. And someday, they have to decide: do I keep passing down this pain, or do I end it here? Healing means becoming the parent your younger self needed — not the one who hurt you.