Four-year-old joe is crying because his favorite aunt is moving away. his parents are in the kitchen arguing about how to respond to the situation. joe's father wants to tell him "big boys don't cry." joe's mother wants to tell him "it is okay to cry when you feel sad.

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.