Buccigross: Patrick O'Sullivan moving on from heartbreaking childhood

Patrick O'Sullivan wrote the book "Breaking Away" about the abuse he suffered as a child. Jim McIsaac/Getty ImagesBack in January 2014, I wrote:

Parenting is easy if you have an abundance of four things: 1. Energy 2. Creativity 3. Selflessness 4. Affection

If you give your kids everything you have inside of you, they will eventually give it back. They won't want to let you down. You won't have to punish them or push them to exert.

Fewer words and more action is the recipe.

To review and expand:

I should have written "easier" and/or "more effective" in that opening sentence. Parenting is not easy, and for some it doesn't come natural. Parenting always came natural and easy to me.

Energy to play…