My Sister Broke My 9-Year-Old Daughter’s Leg With a Steel Skewer—Then My Parents Offered to Pay the Hospital Bill If I Changed My Story
People may disappoint you.
What I could promise was:
You will not have to keep dangerous secrets to preserve adult comfort.
If you tell me something hurts, I will listen.
If I do not understand, I will investigate.
If I am wrong, I will correct myself.
If another adult is angry because you told the truth, their anger does not become your responsibility.
Those promises I could keep.