My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Despite what we say there remains a tendency to act as though children were, if not adults (albeit short ones), then very much in training to become adults -- the people we seek to develop rather than the ones who are actually here.
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