Don’t talk to strangers, but love thy neighbor true I don’t know who’s the stranger and I don’t know what to do. Who’s who? Who’s who? Who’s the friend of mine? How can those I do not know be both at the very same time? If I do not know your name or your Mom […]

The more I encourage my child to think for himself, the more he will care what I think.

Sometimes they make me angry and then I become real sad. Cause they don’t always let me speak, My folks, my Mom and Dad. I really know when I have done, A thing that’s not too good. And that makes me feel awful, And I’d stop it if I could. Sometimes I don’t watch what […]

We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children.

When Mom and Dad have visitors they like to show me off. They ask me to recite a poem and you know that I’ll cough. When they ask me to sing a song, you can make a bet, That I’ll begin again and in between will say, “Aw, I forget.” I know that they are […]

A man among children will be long a child, a child among men will be soon a man.

We childproof our homes, but they keep getting in.

I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again. I want to return to a time when life was simple When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn’t bother you, because you didn’t […]

A child is a gift that comes through you to the world; it can never be owned.

My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage.