By Alisa Bowman
When I picked up my daughter from her first sleep over, I learned that she and another little girl had gotten into a verbal scuffle. My daughter had been the instigator. Obviously this concerned me, so, during the drive home, I asked her why she was so mean to this other little girl. Let’s call her Candy.
“Why were you so mean to Candy?” I asked.
At first my daughter gave me a bunch of reasons that made no sense. She told me, for instance, that this Candy should not have been allowed to skip a grade in school. She told me that Candy always got what she wanted. She told me a lot of things that just didn’t add up. When I questioned her logic, my daughter changed her story and said that the other little girl had been mean to her first.
I knew this wasn’t true. I... More...
