Silent Sunday
One Picture. No Words.
For a child who is as dependant on adults as Dominic is, helping him reclaim an element of control is never a bad thing. How else is he going to develop a sense of his own self-worth if he is never reminded that, even though he is ever so small, he doesn't have to just let life happen to him? I have been telling him this for years, trying to combat the shadow of 'learnt helplessness' that looms with over all children who can't follow the normal developmental path towards independence, but as I hear the words falling out of my ...