See how he’s hugging the pillow? I think he’s not entirely OK with it.But he has loving people around him, and a more stable home than he had with his parents. He’ll get through this.
In “The Great Gatsby”, one of Gatsby’s guests remarks to the narrator that Gatsby took this a step further and actually bought the real books. But anyone who cared to look closely could see he’d never read any of them, as the ends of the pages were still uncut.
Joan! Tell Holly about how the Industrial Revolution made clothing cheaper, and was the first step in making fashion affordable for ordinary people! That might actually interest her in a way the development of the steam engine won’t.
(OK, so Joan can’t hear me because she’s a comic strip character. This is for parents and teachers who might be struggling with a Holly of their own.)
The job of the first child is to teach you to be a parent.The job of the second child is to make sure you understand everything you learned was wrong.