At her wits' end about her 13-year old child's lying and cheating ways, a mother was on the verge of sending her daughter to a girls' home here. She felt powerless about changing her daughter's behaviour.
As a last resort, she agreed for her daughter to work with an art therapist whom her child's secondary school had a partnership with.
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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on February 25, 2018, with the headline Mending parent-children ties through art therapy. Subscribe