One of the things I learned as a girl child was to smile and nod when I was being spoken to. That to interrupt was to risk being disliked. While I had a pretty strong “bullshit detector” and could disagree with adults in authority such as my teachers, in adulthood – when relationships with […]
It will end in tears
“It will end in tears” was a prediction I often heard in circles of young mothers when voices of children were raised near them . . . . Now I think differently . . . As Jim and I waited for takeaways on a village street, I happened to hear a young child’s loud voice […]