“This is the story of why I told off a six-year-old,” declares Helena Andrews-Dyer in an excerpt we’ve got today from her new book, THE MAMAS: What I Learned About Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me. Obviously, you want to know more, and your heart will break for her friendly kid, Sally, when you read this tale of playground exclusion: “She looked at my daughter, my radiant child, as if she were radioactive, immediately running in the opposite direction whenever Sally got close.”
Hope your post-Labor Day reentry was smooth and you were tired of the pool anyway,
Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor |
