It Is Easier to Build Strong Children Than to Repair Broken Men
Posted by Clay Dunn on Thursday, January 12, 2012
Last weekend, a New York Times columnist featured a recent statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics on the effect of “toxic stress” on children. This stress, defined as “the stress that emerges when a child senses persistent threats but no protector,”
Reading the article, it was easy to think of hunger as being one source of toxic stress, when a child is uncertain where he or she may get their next meal. By connecting kids to sustainable food resources, like school breakfast, after school meals and summer meals, I hope we’re relieving one source of toxic stress in the lives of children.
I also love the Frederick Douglass quote that’s included in the article, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
Building strong children is a noble goal for all of us.
January 12, 2012 | 0 comment(s) | Tags: childhood hunger, frederick douglass, new york times
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