Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I was out yesterday with my foster granddaughter, now 13, and we had fun shopping, having lunch and seeing the documentary "Pick of the Litter".  I asked her, at some point, about whether her little sister was going to the same elementary school, which she is, and if she'd had a teacher my granddaughter had for kindergarten, whom I hadn't liked much.  My granddaughter replied that the teacher wasn't bad, but she had been horrible at that age.  I was surprised, as actually my granddaughter had been coping with her father dying when she was a baby, a move of house, a new boyfriend for her mother, struggle with reading due to a health issue, and just generally a lot of change at once.  She thinks of herself as a brat, but I felt the teacher was bribing kids with candy kept in her desk, and she had no sympathy for psychology.  The minute my granddaughter was out of that class, she began reading and her next teacher built her confidence and my granddaughter just blossomed.  So she's hard on her younger self, very hard.  I tried to talk to her about it, but she got that:  you are my grandmother and you dote on me so you don't know look.  Well, she is confident on the outside now, beautiful and smart with good grades.  I just got a tiny glimpse of what's on the inside.