I stopped to watch my little girl busy playing in her room. In one hand was a plastic    1  ; in the other a toy broom. I listened as she was speaking to her make-believe little friend and I’ll never forget the words she said, even    2  it was a pretense.

She said, “Suzie’s in the corner because she’s not been very    3   . She didn’t listen to a    4  I said or do the things she should.” In the corner I saw her baby doll all dressed in lace and pink. It was   5   she’d been put there to sit alone and    6  .