A three-year-old tried to make her mother look beautiful: a bruise of black liner smudged around her mother’s eyes, a blood-red streak of lipstick, a false eyelash askew.
Her mother tried to teach her daughter a lesson but instead left only a welt.
The worst harms can sometimes come from the best of intentions.
Makeup, Literature by Christopher Powers, PhD
Christopher Powers, PhD
Christopher Powers, PhD
Director of Psychology Training at Huntsman Mental Health Institute & Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Christopher works with children and families at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute on the youth in-patient units. He has learned that frequently, parents and children love each other so much, mean so well, and behave so destructively.
