My Daughter ‘Went to School’ Every Morning – Then Her Teacher Called and Said She’d Been Skipping for a Whole Week, So I Followed Her the Next Morning

side over hers. I wanted her to have one safe place where she didn’t feel pressured.”

“This isn’t about sides, Mark. This is about being a parent. We have to be the adults, even when it makes them mad at us.”

“I know,” he said.

“I picked up the phone so many times. But she begged me not to.”

I believed him. He looked like a man who had seen his daughter continue reading …