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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.

Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.

We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.

I'm a strong believer in kid-empowerment.

When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.

I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

We often fight wars with our young.