“I’m safe now,” Reesa will say to me when I come to get her after she has been sent to her crib for a time out.
What does that mean, I’ve wondered. Marilee thinks she understands.
Apparently, Reesa was scared in the pool recently, and Marilee calmed her down and then kept telling her, “It’s okay, honey, you’re safe now.” Reesa associates this phrase with the act of calming down. To her, “I’m safe now” means “okay, I’m much calmer now, thank you very much.”
Ha! As if there were just three lessons, or some larger number of easy lessons. Being a father (or a husband) seems to be a tug-of-war between personal creation and incomprehensible occurrence.
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