Mother/Distressed
Daughter (3-ish years old)
Mother (staring
hard at Distressed Daughter, while pulling her along by the hand): You are so
lucky that it was nice family who found you! Imagine if it were a mean man …
Distressed
Daughter: Wah!
Mother: You should
feel bad. I want you to feel bad.
DD: Wah!
Mother: Cry! That’s
it, cry! It’s the one thing you’ve got right today.
DD: Wah!
Mother: Scared?
You should be scared!
(One would expect,
given Mother’s mood, she was a long way from saying all she was going to say
about Distressed Daughter’s day, but I was running at the time and only caught
this portion of the dialogue [monologue?].)
Next: Running for Your Life: Rigidity Lesson
