My 5-Year-Old Niece Whispered, “The Chair Hurts Me”—Then She Showed Me What She Had Hidden Underneath
She let me read it.
The final paragraph said:
A safe home is not a place where nothing bad ever happens. That would be impossible. A safe home is where telling the truth does not make you more afraid than the thing you are telling about.
I read that sentence twice.
Then closed the paper.
“You wrote this?”
She rolled her eyes.
“No, the rabbit did.”