By Mel Jacob
“This is like i am on a psychiatrist’s settee,” our 10-year-old son Nick* declares. “Maybe i ought to be. I have got problems – my father was at prison, my mum ended up being smoking cigarettes!”
Our company is sitting on our deck that is back in last throes of a paper meeting. Maybe not because we would done any such thing charitable or noble, we hasten to incorporate.
Mel and Patrick Jacob at their house within the Blue Mountains. Credit: Janie Barrett
My hubby invested 2 yrs in prison and I also have written a book about this.
Hearing my son inform the journalist about their dilemmas, albeit tongue-in-cheek, makes me concern our choice to inform our kids the facts about their dad’s conviction for offences pertaining to weapons that are prohibited. (more…)