The CLEAR View

There are some stories that sit heavy on your heart. Not because you witnessed it or read up on every detail. But because somewhere in the middle of the headline, the police report, the social media posts, the missing person flyer, the candlelight vigil, and the comment section . . . there is a child. There is a future that many caregivers, teachers, mentors, and friends expected to see unfold. There is a life . . . There is a family . . . There is somebody's baby. In my work

The more I engage with children today, the more I fear that we have not set them up for success. While the rapid changes in technology certainly has some of the blame, I believe, it’s our unwillingness to take responsibility for the environments that we have created for them. We have to be honest with ourselves about what our children are absorbing. Many of us are still responding to life from a place of disappointment, hurt and uncertainty; and without realizing it, we're pa