And you recorded that act — a father tying a five-year-old’s shoelace — as, and I quote, ‘intimidating behavior.’ Is that correct?”

“Context matters,” the woman sniffed.

“Indeed it does,” Phoebe agreed, pleasantly, and lifted the neutral supervisor’s report of the very same visit.

“Which is precisely why we also have the context of a licensed professional, with no stake in the outcome, observing that same moment, and describing it as — again I quote — ‘routine, loving parenting.'” She set both pages down.

“So we have two descriptions of one shoelace, Mrs.

Cole.