One Can Only Remember What

Someday We Will Regard Our Children Not As Creatures To Manipulate Or To Change But Rather As Messengers From A World We Once Deeply Knew, But Which We Have Long Since Forgotten, Who Can Reveal To Us More About The True Secrets Of Life, And Also Our Own Lives, Than Our Parents Were Ever Able To.

Depression Leads Him Close To His Wounds, But Only The Mourning For What He Has Missed, Missed At The Crucial Time, Can Lead To Real Healing.

The Truth About Childhood, As Many Of Us Have Had To Endure It, Is Inconceivable, Scandalous, Painful. Not Uncommonly, It Is Monstrous. Invariably, It Is Repressed. To Be Confronted With This Truth All At Once And To Try To Integrate It Into Our Consciousness, However Ardently We May Wish It, Is Clearly Impossible.

In The Short Term, Corporal Punishment May Produce Obedience. But It Is A Fact Documented By Research That In The Long Term The Results Are Inability To Learn, Violence And Rage, Bullying, Cruelty, Inability To Feel Another's Pain, Especially That Of One's Own Children, Even Drug Addiction And Suicide, Unless There Are Enlightened Or At Least Helping Witnesses On Hand To Prevent That Development.

The Victimization Of Children Is Nowhere Forbidden; What Is Forbidden Is To Write About It.