Children -
Last night we spoke about children and how maybe it is time to institute a test people take before becoming parents. It stinks of elitism and yet when I read an article like this, I have to wonder how we protect the innocence and vulnerability of our children. Zach is three and a half now. He lives in both a "real" and an imaginative world, is so sensitive to what goes around him and gratefully is treated with gentleness and kindness, and then, there is this child.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/18/MNJ518R40V.DTL
I am reminded now of a wonderful book, The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls, her memoir of growing up with parents who didn't seem to understand the concept of protecting and caring for their children. I know we can't protect ourselves from pain but it does seem there needs to be some standards set up and again how would we do it. The issues are complex.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/18/MNJ518R40V.DTL
I am reminded now of a wonderful book, The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls, her memoir of growing up with parents who didn't seem to understand the concept of protecting and caring for their children. I know we can't protect ourselves from pain but it does seem there needs to be some standards set up and again how would we do it. The issues are complex.