Letter From a Strong-Willed Child: Part 1
No, my name is not Casey. But I was the kid who stole multiple times from a grocery store and brought her brother into the strategies of a young crook. When Grandma gave us giant chocolate Easter bunnies and Mom rationed them out as a reward for us drinking full water bottles, I also taught him the common sense method of the laundry room drain. I ate pop rocks for the first time behind my mother’s back (and had the living daylights scared out of me). I was the sibling whose name got put on the fridge for Dad to deal with after mom had a full day of spanking me. I always wondered how he knew I wasn’t really asleep when he came into my room. Or maybe he just didn’t care about waking up a child trying so hard to look angelic in her sleep. I was a sneaking, conniving, secretive sinner bent on rebellion and getting around the rules. Things may have gone differently for me if my parents had listened to Kirk Martin’s podcast on “The Myth of Immediate Obedience” and taken his advi
