SEEING OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US

Jane, in Canada, sent me this today:

A first grade girl handed in the drawing below for her homework assignment. 



The teacher graded it and the child brought it home. She returned to school the next day with the following note:

Dear Ms. Davis, 



I want to be perfectly clear on my child's homework illustration. It is NOT of me on a dance pole on a stage in a strip joint surrounded by male customers with money. I work at Home Depot and had commented to my daughter how much money we made in the recent snowstorm. This drawing is of me selling a shovel.

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It reminded me of the time Mairi brought home her schoolwork at the end of the year when she was in Primary 2. Browsing through her book of written stories I came across a story she had written at the start of her school year:

My Summer Holiday

"We sailed to Arran in our boat. Mummy went up the mountain with Auntie Iseabail and Curly. Daddy and Ricky took Alastair and I to the beach where he bought us ice cream and then went to the pub." !!!