At Emerging Adulthood Consulting, we talk a lot about Legacy in Progress—the idea that healing, growth, and parenting don’t follow a linear path. We build better futures when we choose to show up, especially in the places we were never shown how. There’s a kind of parenting that doesn’t leave bruises, doesn’t shout, and doesn’t walk out. But it still leaves a mark. It’s the absence of presence. The quiet invisibility of emotionally inattentive parenting. It’s when parents phy
