What would the teacher think?
Patricia was a worrier, and the thing she worried about most was what others
thought of her. One day her son’s teacher asked the class to take some newspa-
pers to school the following day. All she could find at first was last week’s local free
advertiser and a copy of a down-market tabloid known mainly for the page display-
ing pictures of topless women. Patricia went into a panic. She couldn’t let him take
either of those. What would the teacher think?
Eventually, after a lengthy and heated discussion with her husband, he popped
round to the next door neighbour’s and returned with a few spare copies of a qual-
ity broadsheet. Phew!
In the event the teacher didn’t even look at the newspaper. She only wanted them
for papier mache!
41 GIVE UP APPROVAL-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR