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Learning How to Love My Daughter

Dennis G. Jerz / 22 Sep 2019

A teen girl in a spring dress, with her hair up. Text: “You’re so beautiful,” I told my daughter. She rolled her eyes. I asked her what I should say instead. She thought a bit. “You should say, ‘You shall prevail.’” “You shall prevail,” I said. She smiled.

22 Sep 2019 in Culture, Empathy, Language, Personal, Philosophy, Psychology, Speech.

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