Dear Katie:

The title of your thread: is there something wrong with me. Well, I see these three wrong things:

1. Your mother was present during your birthday in preschool when a teacher yelled at you. She heard and saw the teacher yell at you and yet she didn’t do anything about it. She did not protect you from that teacher. If she did do something, she didn’t make it a part of the story she told you about that day, and that wrong in itself.

2. Your mother told you that “the teachers at (your) preschool were just bad people”- yet she did not remove you from that preschool. She did not protect her daughter from the bad people.

3. Your mother communicated to you that there is something wrong with you. That is wrong for a mother to communicate this message to her daughter because a mother is a very important person in a girl’s mind and life and therefore she should be careful and thoughtful about what she chooses to say to her daughter.

Let me know if you agree with these three wrong things, what you think about these things, and I will comment more about your post.

anita