Ask a Grade 8 learner who she is, and she will tell you what she wears, what she watches, and who she sits with at break. Ask again, and she will run out of answers somewhere around the second sentence. This is not her failure. It is ours. We have built an
There is a sentence I have heard parents say to me, almost word-for-word, in different rooms and communities for the better part of my Life. It goes something like this: “I talk to my child all the time. I have no idea why she won’t open up to me.” I believe them.
A week ago, a three-part series was offered. Mattering, Formation, Adult Responsibility: three blogs, one argument, one closing call to the grown-ups in young people’s lives to stop diagnosing the youth and start examining ourselves. In the week since, we pondered the question, which many readers may have had and who may