account_circle by Sheyene Foster Heller

Creative Nonfiction

California

Issue No. 116 ~ January, 2007

"Steve and I had talked it over for hours this morning, before the children got up. I was supposed to calm down more, to let the children misbehave. 'Just let them be kids,' Steve had told me again and again. 'Let them break stuff. They can't help it, so don't expect them to be other than they are.'"