

The Right Perspective - Part 2
A parent is an important figure in a child's mind— knowledgeable, powerful. If a child considers his or her parent to be incapable of making mistakes, then whatever the parent does will seem right, no matter what the reality. Children accept their parents’ word, and the parents’ word is the basis for what the rest of the world looks like to a child. The prime information that a child has to process life does not come from school or experience—it comes from the guidance thei


The Right Perspective - Part 1
When I was eight, a friend a year older than I, disclosed to me her knowledge about the conception of human life. No one had ever talked to me about it before and, naturally, it made me curious. It seemed too personal of a topic to speak of out loud, so, I took my questions to the Internet. I wasn’t looking up anything bad; I just wondered what babies did before they were born. The danger was that I didn’t realize the Internet could be used as a playhouse for obscenity. I ha