Eleanor roosevelt had a rough childhood. She was born to a rich family, but her father struggled with the diction and died young. Her mother was always difficult and judgmental, but she was still her mother. When eleanor was sent to school in london,. there, at a special school for girls, she met her teacher who finally saw in eleanor, not a plain, shy girl, but some one special. Why wouldn't our kids want the same things in their own young, fragile lives? And who could possibly be more meaningful to come from than us? As we've said, it's hard to be a kid. Kids are uncertain. They're