My little girl came into where my wife works today with X, Y and her younger brother. She didn’t acknowledge my wife, head was down and she was sitting in a trolley with her shoes off and a little skimpy dress on (no tights, socks, vest / t-shirt or coat). Now bearing in mind that in this part of the country it will be around 2 – 3 degrees (maybe colder) at the time of year, I’m unsure why she was dressed like that.
I just can’t help but shake my head when I hear things like this. The coat could have been my little girl not wanting to wear it, but the socks / tights / vest need to be on her. I just despair sometimes. Maybe I’m being overly-critical as I don’t know all the facts but sitting on this side of the fence and seeing what I’ve seen it can be difficult to give people the benefit of the doubt.
The worst part of all of this is the look my little girl has – head down. We are seeing this more and more now, on and off, for some reason. I tink she is just fed-up but we don’t seem to get much out of her. I normally try and find out what is wrong and when I don’t get a response, I just tell my little girl that we both love her and that she can talk to us any time and leave it at that. Sometimes she then talks to us about it. Sometimes not. As long as she feels comfortable enough to know that she CAN talk about it then that is fine.
