CNU-At my mother’s Sunday dinner, my sister offered to take my five-year-old daugh…

remorse. I doubt it. Either way, I did not need to hold it.

My mother once told me children needed to learn they were not special.

She was wrong.

Children need to learn they are not responsible for adult emptiness. They need to know their joy is not theft, their voice is not arrogance, their presence is not a burden. They need adults who do not make them continue reading …