I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
Children aren't just our future. They're our present.
I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.
When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't separate children's contact with the adult world today.
Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up - because they have great values and a great sense of self.
Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.