SAVING GRACE
Janine Daw, 46, Widnes
Scraping the food from my daughter’s untouched dinner into the kitchen bin, I dumped the plate in the sink and sighed with defeat.
Why won’t she eat!? I thought.
Grace, 12, was still sitting at the table, her legs dancing off her seat.
‘Can I go to my room now, Mum?’ she asked me.
Although I hated letting her go to bed on an empty stomach, I knew there was no point starting an argument about dinner again.
Not today. I didn’t have the energy, neither did Grace. But, watching her slink down the hallway, her tiny frame more like that of a 6 year old than a girl on the verge of her teens, my heart broke.
Ever since she was a
