She believed making Emma quieter would solve the problem.
She had created a problem inside the mind of a four-year-old child and called it discipline.
But there was something else.
A message recovered from Diane’s phone showed that she had been communicating with someone about Emma.
That person was a former caregiver who had told Diane that certain medications could “settle difficult children.”
Diane had taken that advice instead of speaking to Emma’s pediatrician.
She had never told us.
She had never asked us.
She had simply decided she knew better.
The investigation continued for weeks.
Doctors monitored Emma.
Specialists evaluated her.
The police interviewed family members.
The medication bottle was tested.
Diane was eventually charged with offenses related to administering medication to a child without authorization.
Our family was shattered.
But something else happened too.
Emma changed.
At first she was afraid to sleep.
She asked me every night whether Grandma was coming back.
Then she began asking whether she was “being good.”
Those words broke my heart every time.
So I started answering the same way.
“You don’t have to be good enough to be loved.”
She would look at me.
I would repeat it.
“You don’t have to be quiet enough to be loved.”
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