When We Start with Empathy and Compassion, We Do What’s Right for Kids

I love the baseball movie Field of Dreams. Who could forget the scene when Annie (played by Amy Madigan) attends a PTA meeting where they’re considering banning books by provocative author Terence Mann? “Who thinks the Bill of Rights is a good thing?”, she exclaims, “Who thinks we have to stand up to the kind of censorship they had under Stalin?” It’s a powerful and…