We've seen more kids at a young age on Prozac and antidepressants. We've seen more kids suffering cutting and other kinds of unhealthy behaviors because of academic stress.

All kids don't walk and talk at the same time. So to expect them all at age 5 when they enter kindergarten to all know their letters, numbers, and be able to write them is really unfair to them.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state

But high school is a better age to absorb what's going on there.

'Hey honey, How'd you do on that test?' -- That might seem like a well-meaning question, but really, that sends a message that you care more about how they did on the test than what they actually learned that day.

I don't understand emo kids. How is it that someone who hadn't ever have to dig a grave for a puppy, under the burning sun, using only a wooden stick to dig the bitter land, while having an 8 years old child asking you, while crying a river, why poisonous frogs are so bad, could ever believe he or she actually know something about suffering? I just don't get it.