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Imagine What Our Real Neighborhoods Would Be Like If Each Of Us Offered . . . Just One Kind Word To Another Person.

The Roots Of A Child's Ability To Cope And Thrive, Regardless Of Circumstance, Lie In That Child's Having Had At Least A Small, Safe Place (an Apartment? A Room? A Lap?) In Which, In The Companionship Of A Loving Person, That Child Could Discover That He Or She Was Lovable And Capable Of Loving In Return. If A Child Finds This During The First Years Of Life, He Or She Can Grow Up To Be A Competent, Healthy Person.

It Is One Of The Paradoxes Of Parenting, And Often A Painful Paradox, That Even As Our Children Need Us For Love And Trust, They Also Need Us For Honest Differing. It's Not Only Over Limits And Rules...[but Also] About What We Represent In The Way Of Culture, Traditions, And Values. We Owe It To Our Children To Let Them Know What We Believe, And If They Differ With Us, We Owe It To Them To Be Honest Adversaries, For It Is Through This Honest Confrontation That Children Can Grow Into Adults Who Have A Firm Sense Of Their Place In The Sequence Of The Generations.

Human Relationships Are Primary In All Of Living. When The Gusty Winds Blow And Shake Our Lives, If We Know That People Care About Us, We May Bend With The Wind ... But We Won’t Break.

We All Have Only One Life To Live On Earth, And Through Television We Have The Choice Of Encouraging Others To Demean This Life Or To Cherish It In Creative, Imaginative Ways.