Mental disorders represent a real problem for a significant
number of kids — up to one in five children under the age
of 18
suffers from a mental disorder — and this was true long before smartphones were placed in their hands.
Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour
of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness
of breastfeeding, in the repetition
of cleaning, in the step
of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours
of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my
kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome
number on the scale, in the sounding out
of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat
of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty
of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling
of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the
suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all
of a life.
As for King, her character
suffers a bit from cute
kid syndrome thanks to a
number of heavy - handed attempts at labeling her a hero and an excess
of helpless screaming, but for the most part, King comes across as an appealingly mature character with some sass.
Because TK classes encourage (and by encourage I mean give you the evil eye if you don't) parents to stay the first 15 - 20 min
of the day in the classroom to help your
kid settle in read to them write «love notes» etc.S o you have to
suffer the «listeners and learners»
number EVERY.