Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read
I think this approach will pay dividends in years to come when they start to actually process it.
I was that young when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots erupted in several major cities. The latter was aired on the tv news. Were it not for my mother explaining to me, much as you did to your daughter, the context in which this was occurring, I might have veered off in an entirely different direction as I got older. Instead, I regarded her investment of time and patience as a good point of origin for understanding what had transpired and why. It may have saved me from being hateful instead of compassionate.
