Your Child Is Hurting My Child’s Feelings

Why can’t they just play together?

Alison Acheson
A Parent Is Born
Published in
4 min readDec 3, 2020

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When my son was in first grade, a mother approached me one school morning. Our two boys, both almost seven at the time, had played together once or twice a week as well as at school for several months, but that had come to an end. I knew why.

Your son doesn’t want to spend time together

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Alison Acheson
A Parent Is Born

My latest book is a memoir, Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days With ALS. My newsletter is on Substack: THE UNSCHOOL FOR WRITERS.