"Ye are of God, little children"

The Christian Science Monitor

While cleaning her daughter's room recently, a friend was stunned to discover that the eleven-year-old had scrawled the word life on paper and crossed it out with a huge "X." There were satanic symbols, too, and a makeshift will.

Another friend was approached on the street by a young boy selling drugs. He couldn't believe his eyes; the boy was about the same age as his nine-year-old son.

For all its rewards, being a parent these days has got to be one of the toughest jobs going. But then, these are not easy times to be a child, either. Innocence and purity, spirituality and meekness, are not especially valued in a materialistic age. In fact, materialism would seek to crush out these things altogether—in all of us. It could make a child feel his life just isn't worth much. It might induce self-hatred, anger, and confusion about right and wrong.

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