I'm glad I didn't know this when we started our diary — it began almost as a mistake. As time went by, Georgia wrote with less and less self-consciousness, almost as if she'd forgotten that I was reading her entries. These passages were particularly enlightening and made me feel lucky to have the diary in my arsenal of parenting tools. Her plan to run away from home, aged eight, because her brothers were too annoying was thwarted before she got as far as the front door. One of the biggest difficulties I encountered with Georgia when she was younger was her talent for evading the truth.
She was surprisingly skilled in this area and could fool me in ways that her brothers never could.
This caused a lot of confrontation between us and, at times, it felt as if she had zero respect for me as her mother. One of her typically dramatic entries, when she was nine, addresses this:. I am never going to tell a lie again. I can't believe I have told almost 10, lies and only, like, 50 of them were white lies.
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This was one of the entries that we went on to discuss face to face, with me struggling not to quiz her about the exact nature of the 50 white lies. Was one of them telling me that I looked OK in my new dress? Or that my cooking was improving? It was also when Georgia was nine that she did something that took me by surprise. I was at work early one morning when I received a phone call from a friend, wanting to know where Georgia was.
The school bus was waiting for her — full of her class, all dressed up for a trip to Nothe Fort in Dorset for evacuee day. I had no idea what she was talking about. It emerged that a letter had been sent home and parents had been collecting grey tank tops and shorts, and making gas mask boxes for weeks.
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I hadn't received a letter and when I'd left Georgia with her granny that morning she had made no mention of a school trip. The reason became clear once I got home at the end of the day. She hadn't wanted to go. So she left the letter at school and didn't tell us. Her plan because she did have a plan was to go and sit in the empty classroom for a while and then trot along to the school office, where she intended to ask them to ring me and get me to collect her.
I was beyond furious. I was also a bit scared because this endeavour had taken an awful lot of forethought and premeditation. I couldn't believe that she had lied to me about something so big. And that was the problem. Georgia was repentant about making the rest of the class late but wasn't sorry for lying because she didn't believe that she had.
I made her sit there and listen while I went over and over the multiple offences she had committed. But neither of us could really hear what the other was saying. The diary entry for that night made it easier to understand.
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She wrote that she couldn't see why I was accusing her of lying because she had worked hard not to lie. She expected me to hear about the trip and when I didn't mention it, well, neither did she. I wrote back and explained the whole concept of lying by omission. When I stopped to think about it honestly, I could see that I was most hurt that she hadn't confided in me rather than because of what she had done. I could explain that in writing with far less emotional blackmail than when I'd been talking to her. The entries were certainly not all deep and meaningful.
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Very often the diary entries were funny — not that this was Georgia's intention. She started to use them in an attempt to gain control of a situation — to remind me and prompt me into doing the things she thought a mother should do. My favourite entry, when she was seven, reminds me that, even though she is now 12, in some ways she hasn't really changed at all. She still can never find her hairbrush.
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I cannot wait until E's birthday party. Have you seen my Hairbrush? Daddy says he yoosed it. But he dosen't no were it is now. I need it for the party. But if I carn't find it will you let me boro yours? By the way I don't have nitts. You are the best ever. Love from Georgia xxxxxxxxxxxx. The last entry in Georgia's diary was written on 31 July By that point we had really stopped using it, but Georgia had discovered it on her shelf and wanted to write to me one last time.
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She was fortunate to be brought up with love and care of her family. But as they say, sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence. One never realizes that small gestures, small talks in our daily routine can become a memory in future. The memories which one would like to re-live each time, just to relish that happiness once again and get relief from the pain.
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