Children: Great Recorders, Bad Interpreters

Author David Seamands once wrote, “Children are the best recorders but the worst interpreters.” I remember a lot about being a kid. I remember colors and moments, arguments and smells…

Though my memories may be clear, I extract meaning from those memories that may or may not be. So that big kid who sat three rows in front of me on the bleachers in the fifth grade and turned around and called me Dumbo because my ears stuck out? That memory is vivid in my mind. I can hear the squeaks of the players’ shoes in the background,…