Tell me, as a kid what to do when first they get happy with your new word, then they hit you for saying it. Adults are complicated. Being a kid is simple. Smiling, laughing, happy, you can do it. Hitting, crying, you can't. It's much easier. The Grownup's Doll explores mental and physical child abuse and how parent-child interaction or the lack of it, shapes the decisions children end up making when growing up.