It Takes Time--loose, Unstructured Dreamtime-- To Experience

There Is A Real World, Beyond The Glass, For Children Who Look, For Those Whose Parents Encourage Them To Truly See.

If War Occurs, That Positive Adult Contact In Every Shape Is Needed More Than Ever. It Will Be A Matter Of Emotional Life And Death. There's Not A Handy One-minute Way Of Talking To Your Kid About War.

There’s No Denying The Benefits Of The Internet. But Electronic Immersion, Without A Force To Balance It, Creates The Hole In The Boat — Draining Our Ability To Pay Attention, To Think Clearly, To Be Productive And Creative.

Rather Than Accepting The Drifting Separation Of The Generations, We Might Begin To Define A More Complex And Interesting Set Of Life Stages And Parenting Passages, Each Emphasizing The Connections To The Generations Ahead And Behind. As I Grow Older, For Example, I Might First See My Role As A Parent In Need Of Older, Mentoring Parents, And Then Become A Mentoring Parent Myself. When I Become A Grandparent, I Might Expect To Seek Out Older Mentoring Grandparents, And Then Later Become A Mentoring Grandparent.

We Cannot Protect Something We Do Not Love, We Cannot Love What We Do Not Know, And We Cannot Know What We Do Not See. Or Hear. Or Sense.