Protecting the Magic of Childhood

It’s up to parents, grandparents, teachers, mentors, and guardians to return childhood and adolescence to our young people. Sergey Novikov/Shutterstock

A couple of years ago, some friends and I were discussing the lottery. “When people ask me if I ever buy tickets, I tell them I already won the lottery,” one man said. “I was born in the middle of the 20^th century in the United States of America.”

Roughly 70 years after that mid-20^th century childhood win, I wonder whether my grandchildren and their contemporaries will be able to make that same claim.