A Family Business/1
From the age of 2 to 5 Michael was in full time day care and I had a full time job. Peter had been laid off from the Franklin Mint and with his very generous severance package, decided to start his own sculptural and mold-making business. There was an old garage on our property that he turned into a work studio.
At 2 Michael was read for day care. He craved movement and stimulation. I still didn’t know how brilliant he was and how he needed to go out into the world. I hated the whole arrangement.
So there were these three years where I was sure that Michael would be scarred for life. He seemed OK; it was I that was in a terrible state. The famous T. Berry Brazelton’s book helped me through this. He said that very young children tolerate day care but is was the young parents who suffered.
The year that Michael turned five and was headed for kindergarten, the pressures on me loosened, and life became fun again.
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