The sudden silence is ominous. We look quickly at each other and rush for the next room. Where once there were two little boys fighting over who got to play with the fast red car, there are now two little hooligans admiring the mural they’d made on the wall with broken crayons and their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. We knew it, when it comes to kids, silence is not golden, it’s trouble …showed first 75 words of 819 total…

…showed last 75 words of 819 total…smoke under the football stands until the coach gives him five laps around the field. Miller sees the problems, but he has the answer all wrong. We don’t need to reassess how we look at children, we have to reassess how we raise children. Are we raising kids or raising future adults? If we don’t care enough to do the job well, we’ll continue to see sullen, spoiled, undereducated adolescents. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**