“I haven’t had a shower in, like, a week!” This, from my nine year old. I know for a fact that she had a shower the day before yesterday, but never mind. It seems like a week, so it is
Ignorance
In my heart I know I have labelled my children. I’m pretty sure we all do it. A child shows patterns of behaviour and we use words to try to describe those patterns. We use these terms to define a