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Article: Dr. Robert Coles, children, and the sacred.(A Quarterly Review)(Biography)
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- Modern Age
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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CHILDREN, IT IS SAID, are the future of the human race on whom we project our own hopes and fears. We are amused by the spectacle of the father who transfers his unfulfilled athletic ambitions to his son, or of the mother who is determined that her daughter not make the same mistakes the mother made. These individuals are plainly working out issues in their own lives in the lives of their children, forcing their sons and daughters into patterns of thought and attitude that may have nothing to do with what is best for them.
We naturally want to protect our children from negative influences, and in an age of moral relativism we are all the more inclined ...