Chapter 11 - DIANE’S FIRST APOLOGY WAS NOT AN APOLOGYI am sorry Claire reacted so strongly to a discipline method she did not understand.
No.
Second:
I am sorry Noah was frightened by techniques intended to correct serious behavior.
Still no.
Months later, after therapy and legal proceedings:
Noah, I called you a dog, placed food in pet bowls, used a chain as part of punishment, and frightened you because I wanted adults to see you as behaviorally unstable.
There.
I did that partly because I wanted to delay changes at the foundation that would reduce my influence.
Hard.
I told myself I was protecting Arthur’s legacy, but I was protecting my position.
Accurate.
Then:
You were four. Your crying, biting, anger, and fear after punishment were not proof that you were bad. They were responses to what adults were doing to you.
I cried reading that.
Then:
I had no right to use your childhood as evidence in an adult governance fight.
Good.
Noah was too young to read it.
May you like
We stored it.
He could choose later.
