Where does the phrase “Parenting With Dignity” come from?
When I (Mac Bledsoe) was in the Army there was an amazing lady who worked for me in the office that I was assigned to manage. I’ll call her Patricia to keep her identity private, but Patricia kept me sane while I was in the insanity of the Army and the Viet Nam war. She also taught me a ton while I was there. (She remains a friend today and she is still teaching me.) One day she was out in the reception center greeting soldiers with her usual cheerful attitude and she was treating everyone with the same respect and dignity… rank, age, color or position never made any difference to Patricia . She treated everyone with dignity and integrity. I could see her through the window in my office. She had arrived at her usual time, ten minutes early. After about an hour on the job one of the Privates who worked with her came in and said, “Lt. Bledsoe, did you see what happened to Patricia last night?” “No,” I replied. He just dropped the Newspaper on my desk and left. On the front page of the
