From The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Shefali Tsabary. It reminded me of Aibileen Clark’s words in The Help. Aibileen is a black nanny to a little white girl, Mae Mobley, who is severely neglected by her mother. Every chance she gets, Aibileen whispers these words into Mae Mobley’s ears: “You is beautiful…you […]
Truth-Telling
Have you seen The Help yet? Marvelous. It’s one of the first times in my reading and movie-going experience I thought the book (The Help by Kathryn Stockett) and movie were both superb. Yes, I know they’ve received quite a lot of criticism, but I think the critics have been focusing on all the wrong things. […]
Read These Books
If you’re a bibliophile, you’ll want to know about these great books. You will not be able to put down The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Told in three voices (2 black maids and 1 white woman in the South during the 60’s), the story is about emotional emancipation in the midst of real physical enslavement. […]