Dear Ann Landers,
y husband is the type who must have the last word no matter what it costs him. Well, it is now costing him fifteen days in jail. It all started with a speeding ticket. My husband said he was not speeding, that the cop was laying for him. He refused to pay the ticket and went to court to plead not guilty. When the judge reminded my husband that he had been nabbed for speeding twice in the past two years, he got mad and called the judge a name. The judge gave him fifteen days. So now what am I to tell our six-year-old son? How will he feel if he knows his father is in jail? Will it scar him for life? I need answers and I need them now.-Undone

Dear Un,
Tell your son that people who drive cars must follow the rules or pay the penalty, which in this case was a jail sentence. Make it clear that Daddy did not rob a bank or kill anyone but that he did break a law, and laws must be obeyed if we are to have a world safe for everybody.