30 years from now, little Roland will be telling a therapist about how mommy died, then came back, but was actually his step-aunt, daddy and step-aunt had a baby, step mom Regina and step-aunt Zelena occasionally fight, and once daddy went to hell and left Roland in a tent in the woods with a bottle of water and a bologna sandwich.
You missed out the part where his step brother Henry’s real father (Neal) used him as bait which resulted in him almost being dragged to Neverland by a scary evil shadow.