Preserving the Child

How will we sustain the innocence, genius and beauty of the child?

First, we will nurture that beauty from its very beginning. We will surround the child with Torah and sing to it songs of wisdom even before it leaves the womb. We will make the child's room into a sanctuary with holy books, posters with thoughtful messages hanging on the walls and a charity box to be used daily.

And then, as the child emerges to discover that the world outside is not quite the same as that sanctuary inside, we will explain:
"Yes, this is not the way it is supposed to be. But it is only temporary. It's left up to you and I and all of us to change it, right now."