Dear Anita,

My dad has a temper problem.  He used to hit my mom.  He never hit me but sometimes he looks like a big scary monster that will hit someone.  He always gets mad easily and yells.  When he is mad his eyes pop out of his head and his face gets really red. i remember one time at dinner he got really mad, we were all sitting to eat – and he got so mad, I don’t remember why.  And I remember I did not eat – and my mom was upset because he made me cry so much that I did not eat.

sometimes my dad is nice, when I came back from India one time he brought a teddy bear to the airport, I love that teddy bear.