Kids add an extra weight to whatever is going on, |
Murdered children, child prodigies - those stories strike the population at a different level than stories of adults experiencing similar things. The same goes for young people at protests. There's a deeper impact when you see a kid confronting authority or risking arrest because of his beliefs. |
She has to be careful that she doesn't become her own road show, in which she becomes someone who goes around the country as an extraordinary person, in some ways. |
There's an idealism starting to bubble up again. Today's kids aren't the materialist, MBA, Bonfire-of-the-Vanities types that you saw in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They're also not the weary, cynical types who think they can't do anything. |