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Gee Whiz, What a Life!: The Boyhood Chronicles
Gee Whiz What a Life The Boyhood Chronicles Author:Jim Lewis A note to parents who read these stories (perhaps with your children): — Kids today face an amazing collection of pressures and challenges. They are — bombarded with vast amounts of information, are presented with countless — choices, and are closely surrounded by a society that, in many respects, seems — to be falling apart at the seams. However, f... more »ar too much is made, in my opinion,
of the particular challenges young people face in different times. Human
experience might come in different packages, yet there is an underlying
continuity. The challenges my father experienced growing up in the forties
and fifties are somehow strangely familiar to that of my own growing up in
the eighties and nineties. I know this, in part, because I have read and
enthusiastically enjoyed these “Boyhood Chronicles”. In them I think that
you too can re-experience with your young son or daughter some of the
challenges that, in accordance with how we respond to them, define the quality
of people we become.
A note for kids who read theses stories:
It might be hard for you to imagine a time when kids your age were not always
instantly connected to friends and random videos (texting, YouTube, etc.).
However, let me suggest to you that it is a time worth remembering. Reading
a book slows things down, so uncomfortably slow for our day when we expect
everything “fast and furious”. Yet in this slowing comes a way of understanding
life that we would miss had we not put down our IPOD’s and turned off our
TV’s. Unplug from the endless stale stories of celebrities and plug into real
life. That’s what I felt as I read these “Boyhood Chronicles”. I trust that you