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A MOM’S PERSPECTIVE
A budding police officer until one fateful day
By Sonia Huggins Sonia Huggins is an educator who recently gave up her distinguished career as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. She is a regular contributor to SideOne.
When my girls were very small, we smiled and waved
fear. Every positive opportunity to interact with the
at the police and conversed with them whenever
police was accepted and encouraged. This was a
possible. My goal, as a young mother, was to make
behaviour we modelled throughout my daughters’
interactions with the police pleasant and without
childhood.
SIDEONE FEBRUARY 2021
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