Originally Posted by Lorel
I highly recommend the book "Glass Castles" by Jeannette Walls. Her childhood makes mine look like Disneyland. She talks about getting burned (so bad she had to get hospitalized) while cooking hotdogs for herself- she was THREE years old! It's a tough story, but well told with a good dose of humor, similar to Angela's Ashes.

I just looked it up. Its on my list.

I wonder how to give my son freedom like this - today we are so overprotective.