I'm Glad My Daughter Got Caught Shoplifting

It was awful, but the lesson was important.

May 11, 2022

I'm Glad My Daughter Got Caught Shoplifting   Today we have a piece by Diana Park about one of those calls that you dread. She was sitting on her deck, enjoying the weather, when her phone rang: her daughter had been caught on camera, shoplifting a cheap ring.  "I was ashamed, embarrassed, and really mad at my daughter for doing something so stupid," she writes. Then she remembered the dumb and reckless mistakes she made as a teenager. The whole process was gut-wrenching and emotional, but in the end, she was glad at how it played out.  — Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor   Read More

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