When I came home from a trip, I discovered my three-year-old daughter trembling with her hair completely shaved off. My mother-in-law looked at her coldly and said, “That’s how children learn not to take what isn’t theirs.” – Welcome

this child to make statements about her mother?”

My mother opened her mouth but said nothing.

My father answered for her.

“We were concerned.”

“That was not my question,” the judge replied.

My mother started crying.

I had witnessed those tears many times before. They usually appeared just before she recast herself as the victim of a situation she had created.continue reading …