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“I always promised myself that I wouldn’t become a mother who spied on her child, but as my daughter got older, circumstances changed and I became worried about her behaviour.
“Jessica is 17 years old, and up until the last couple of months had a great circle of friends that both my husband and I got on with wonderfully well. However, a couple of months ago she seemed to start to lose touch with many of her old group. She became much more secretive about who she was hanging out with, and when we asked her anything about what she was doing and where she was going, it usually ended in a fight. |
“One day when she was at school and I was putting some of her clothes away I went through her things. I hadn’t planned to do it, but I was worried and I needed to find out what she was up to. I had no idea what I was looking for but searched anyway.
“At the bottom of one of her drawers I found a small plastic bag with two small pills in it. Each of the pink pills had a small crescent moon on them. I had no idea what to do and how to ask her about what I had found.”
I WISH I’D KNOWN...
“I wish I had known that it would be more helpful for my students for me to play devil’s advocate, and encourage them to think through different points of view. Although students may be interested in my opinion, I’d like to think that as a teacher I had encouraged them to really think through the evidence, rather than be influenced by what I may believe.”
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