To My Daughter: Don’t Apologize For Being Who You Are

On September 22, Toni Hammer’s daughter Lily got off the school bus and burst into tears. She told her mom that when she went to sit with her friends on the bus, “they said they didn’t want her to sit with them.” Lily quickly recovered, but the incident left her mom thinking and the next morning Toni penned a letter to her daughter which she posted on Facebook. She wrote:

To my daughter, Don’t apologize when someone else bumps into you.

Don’t say “sorry to be such a pain.” You’re not a pain....