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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Mom's Corner

A Leader Among Them

Don’t underestimate the smallest seed for it is filled with great courage.

  On a beautiful fall day, I notice a group of children discover a dead squirrel lying in a parking space on the side of the road. I've seen these children playing together on the corner playground after school each day, their age’s range from kindergarten to third grade. At first they stand around the squirrel talking about it, staring intently. By the looks on almost all of their faces, it seems this is the first time that any of them had seen something dead, in real life. I am mesmerized by the children and stand back from the group wanting to see for myself how this is going to play out. It seems somewhat like observing a social experiment. The children stand on the curb by the side of the road, knowing if they step foot off the curb …

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